TOPIC 5:  INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION I would like to start this final reflection with yet another story. My colleague in administration wanted to study further but not through the company as it would mean having to pay back in time and she did no…

Unpacking the educational experience by applying the Community of Inquiry Educator Survey and the Design Principles of World Cafe to my overall practice Notes on what others have done and what I need to add. I found the Community of Inquiry Educa…

 TOPIC 3 INDIVIDUAL LEARNING REFLECTION THE PUSH FOR AUTHENTIC COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT  Introduction I want to begin my individual reflection with a story. I was going to write lyrics for a rap song “collaboration fo…

 TOPIC 2 INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION The nuanced light and shade of “sharing and openness” and “withholding and closedness”: getting the balance right With pictures :)The Zone System in photography developed by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer where there is…

 PAUSE, REWIND, REFLECTTOPIC 1: Individual Reflections on Topic 1 My identity in the Digital Age  Prensky’s -Digital Immigrants versus Digital Natives David White- Visitors versus Residents              &…

OPEN LEARNING AT ITS BEST DEMOCRATISES LEARNINGResponses  and quotes from those interviewed in the podcast “Knowledge is meant to be shared not hidden away” SALUT!”The reluctance to sharing is rooted in fear, fear that someone will take credi…

 The skeleton of a cosmic web traced out by an algorithm run on a sample of observed galaxies. 

 “The teacher is the arbiter of connections  -George Siemans, (Connectivism theory)Amen to that