«The ghost of electricity howls in the bones on her face» – I always assumed that there is an energy within the woman that radiates out from her, as though the ghost of electricity were howling in her bones. spunky2018 on r/bobdylan I often remember this poetry when I think about human interaction. […]
Resources and Deficits
«You have to cook with the cheese, not with the holes.» This is undoubtedly a prime principle of resource-oriented didactics. Swiss teacher J. Jegge proposed the phrase for pedagogy, and he was advocating resource-oriented teaching for decades. Yet how do we manage to get to the point where we are happy about the cheese and […]
Wonderland of Imagination
In a talk of our Strange Crochet group the notions of a magician and the land of poetry and fairy tales were brought up. That was wonderful to hear. I am convinced that these are powerful forces for learning. Poems and stories help us to start our imagination and new ways of thinking. Human beings […]
Strange Crochet – Our PBL Group
Strange crochet, our PBL Group 10, reminds me of the many complex paths lifelong learning can take – I know an artist group working since 2004 every month on a crochet object: www.haekelobjekt.ch. It is a lifelong art project by Regula Michell and Meret Wandeler, and it tells us about how much time good art […]
Blogging Revisited
Open Networked Learning is an open online course about open online teaching and learning. – Participation in this course gives me the opportunity to restart a few things in life – like blogging. I first heard about blogging twenty years ago, when the word and the concept were still new. People then had to explain […]
Paradoxes of Learning I
I am going backwards through the F-I-Sh-method of this Topic 1 in Open Networked Learning. Focus Investigate Share – Start with: Share We did share our ideas with the tool Thinglink. Thinglink provides an online editor for building an Inteactive image. We did that as a group in 1 account, each one of us setting […]
Sine of Learning
Learning acceleration is the order of the day. 😉 When would it not have been? Today, the fastest connections and the speediest professors are available online at any time for this dream. I wonder, however, whether such a dreamed-of linear acceleration of learning is feasible. I’m doing a test run and try a fresh boost […]