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It was a great disappointment whilst an honors student at the Australian National University, to bump up against the culture of academia, even in the art school unwilling to absorb and imbibe spiritual values in the name of ‘critical thinking’. As Marshall McLuhan noted if you swim in it you just don’t notice it, this [...]

Enlarged view here-http://skitch.com/ruthhoward/dk91p/employee-engagement-by-dave-snowden Dave Snowdon wrote Thoughts on models and Modelling last month and in this post he quotes Gell-Mann “the only valid model of a complex system is the system itself.” I posted a few questions to Dave in regards to how this might apply to Connectivism. RuthHoward: Hi Dave please I’m attempting to [...]

Lee Rainier of Pew Internet and American Life Project has recently published findings from surveys on the impact of the Internet on reading and writing amidst other things by 2020. Of particular interest to myself were several slides which indicated an underlying and connective theme of new literacies necessary for active participation in the future [...]

I have created a Netvibes dashboard of #CritLit2010 feeds here for the MOOC Critical Literacy course run by Stephen Downes and Rita Kop. I highly recommend a privately customised version. I was unable to create a ‘dashboard wizard’ feed search, so I created a new dashboard under ‘manage dashboards’ and then dragged and dropped my [...]

In his 3 posts here here and here John Mak discusses critical literacies for 21st century learners positing the practice of inquiry whereby searching questions reveal self reflective insights. In John’s case as a member of several communities of practice his inquiry furthers both discourse and feedback-in comments on and links to his blog posts. John [...]