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Hi Dave I've got a blogpost that I'd like to contribute. I'm as sick as a dog with flu but I've been reading your papers thanks. What I think I do is #edfutures wherever I can Twitter mainly I think and you'll catch the stream is that it?
Yes my post is old now but it was in response to George's question re the future of education way back then.
My feelings hold but I have other thoughts too now of course. What I didn't mention in my intro post earlier is my desire to reinvigorate my reflective blogging. I'm hoping this course will set me on fire and l'll actually blog.
http://ruthhoward.edublogs.org/2009/02/27/response-to-gsiemens-uneven-im...
Kay you're a sweety for responding to my old blog post thanks, nice to meet you in this series of parallel universes. (Little flat screens all connecting.)
I notice you are a statician-I could really do with knowing how to read and interpret data and how to apply it across data sets!
It looks to me an essential skill to deal with the deluge. I admit it I glaze over at stats I'm certain George can see right through me already (I regrettably declined to study psychology for that reason), but now that infographics is in renaissance I'm encouraged to open up a few neuron networks. I'm a sucker for patterns that reveal beauty and design in particular, whether words or images. But I just haven't extended that love to the numeric.
Yes the universal learner as teacher is beaut. That's why I'm in here to redress my 'logic' imbalance. I would add a year later that I would that I could become an androgynous (Pink, 2005) universal learner-universally hemisphered and open to the diversity of the greater universe.
Ruth,
As the saying goes, we have great minds! Great idea to add universally-hemisphered to the idea of the universal learner. Thanks for the reminder of Pink's book too---I might enjoy rereading it this summer.
You are quite right to see the value of statistics in this information age. I am happy to encourage you to develop this aspect of your pattern-recognition and decision-making toolbox! Let me know if you would like me to recommend resources or help answer any questions.
Amazing opportunity, this course. I'm so glad to be able to connect my little ol' flatscreen with yours. Thanks for helping me make my own connections!
Kay
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Ruth, I like the way you phrased this:
universal learner who is fully plugged into how to learn/think about anything, apply it to anything across everything, aware of their own independence and interdependence.
Here is my follow-up on your idea:
As a student, I am in training to be a universal learner. Even more, I want to learn from a universal learner; otherwise, what can he/she teach me? As a teacher, I am trying to help my students become universal learners themselves. Same for parents & children.
If I were hiring, I would want to hire universal learners.
When I search for collaborators, I seek out universal learners.
I prefer working for a universal learner for the shared basic outlook we would have.
Did I leave anything out???
Kay
Kay Endriss
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