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The Ripe Environment: Change cannot be Institutionalized
Well, when I first started blogging about The Ripe Environment, I didn’t know that I was being edupunk, but now that I have read the powerful thinking behind the theory (Students 2.0, Stephen Downes, Bavatuesdays, D’Arcy Norman) and I believe I was. I don’t know that I really want all …
The Ripe Environment: Interdependent vs. Independent Questioners
For as long back as I can remember we have squashed the questions that only help out the individual and focusing only upon the questions that benefit the most students. The tangential question is not allowed because it is a distraction to the learning, rather than an enhancement. The student …
The Ripe Environment: The Most Powerful Learning
Although the podcast (which was somehow not recorded because I had the device set for line-in rather than mic… I am quite mad about it actually) for this post explains this prerequisite for The Ripe Environment pretty well, I would like to further outline it for those of you who …
The Ripe Environment: The Markers
The “I know it when I see it” form of collaboration is no longer valid. We need new ways to tell if learning is happening through group contribution. We need to be able to assess collaboration, but we can’t do it the same way that we assess writing or proficiency. …
The Ripe Environment: Backchannels exist.
Whether we provide students or teachers with a backchannel, one will form. So long as there is more than one voice in a learning environment, the need to be heard will be undeniable. Students may pass notes or they may text message in their pockets. Teachers may point to a …
The Ripe Environment: Collaboration as Instinct
I sat at the over-long table, as I always do on Mondays and thought about the next time I would meet my students for Extended Learning Time (our version of a multi-discipline course without any set curriculum or standards to give guidance or restrict us). “Well, it is earth day …
The Ripe Environment: Connecting more than two dots.
There is a severe lack of time in the air. It pervaides every conversation I hear on many days: “No, I don’t have time for that collaboration right now. Maybe after this quarter is over.”“Are you sure that it has to be due tomorrow. I really think that having the …
Helping myself out… by asking for help.
So I haven’t blogged for a little while because of all of the work I have been doing for our district’s online school, eDCSD. I intend to blog that out more fully in a separate post, but now I am at the TIE 2008 conference and I have some time …