by andflywrite | Jul 1, 2017 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER, Learning Community
PSA uses the phrase “Social Learning Construct” (SLC) to describe an online learning community. An SLC is a type of community that is constructed to enable online and blended learning and which involves a series of “required” aspects. Today,...
by andflywrite | Jun 26, 2017 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER, Understanding Media
This is a series of posts sketching in, and envisioning, a portion of what we know is either happening now, could happen in the not too distant future, (NTDF), or should happen but isn’t likely to anytime soon given the current models in place....
by andflywrite | Dec 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
A recent book, “The Next America: Boomers, Millenials, and the Looming Generational Showdown” confirms it’s plausible to see recent presidential election as a symptom, rather than a cause. The book illustrates how different the US is now than...
by andflywrite | Oct 5, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
As we find ourselves immersed in various media, some we are “used to” such as watching video, and others we are not such as VR, we realize we need to understand the experiences we are creating. Understanding media is very hard because we are using our...
by andflywrite | Oct 1, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
It seems at times as if understanding what learning should/ could be today depends on encompassing expertise in a broad swath of fields . If learning is a function of human minds/ brains/ bodies…and if it all takes place through a process of perception that is a...
by andflywrite | Jun 3, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
Our relationship to physical space is changing in the mobile age. We spend a lot of time inhabiting virtual space, where a live mediated person can be within 12-24 inches of our face, while physically residing half way around the globe somewhere. Or, maybe a...