This weeks reading has focused on epistemology and the question of what Knowledge is. I got to say that this will probably not be my favourite topic during this course. I’m more inclined to the implications of the theory (or not theory), and meaning of knowledge – that is, what does this in reality mean for teaching and learning. This, paired with my 4-month old daughter being ill, kept my activity lever quite low.
However, the article on rhizomatic knowledge I thought was very interesting, also quite down-to-earth which is good for someone outside the academia like myself.
Another interesting thing was Stevens bloggpost on (among other things) ”trolls” in discussion foras and how they can skew and halt discussions. Steven writes ”In a blog network, each person controls his or her own blog. So it is not possible for a troll to dump on everyone.”. I never thought about this before, but it is definately a good argument in favor of using blogs. On the other hand, making a greater number of participants take part in discussion via comments on eachothers blogs requires more planning and set up than just starting a discussion forum in a LMS.
The daily is still of great help, helping me sort through postings and topics. I try to check moodle and FB aswell, but not in a very structured manner I’m afraid.
Week three will deal with networks! Sounds like fun!
Oh, and I just realised that instead of tagging my posts with CCK08 I’ve been categorizing them (blushing of embarrassement…)
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