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The psychometric era brought not only the concept of reliability, but also other new concepts that gave credence to some practices and delegitimized others. The most important discursive shift was the negative connotation taken on by the word subjective. Framed in opposition to objective, the use of subjective in conjunction with assessment came to mean biased and biased came to mean unfair. “ Much to reflect on in this quote from a Brian Hodges paper referred to in this post by Annalisa Manca

#Rhizo15 Week two – numbers, and a semi-organised flow of thoughts. | EduLabyrinths (via elime)

One from Brian Hodges to resuscitate my Tumblr as well

Teens may make their own media or share content online, but this does not mean that they inherently have the knowledge or perspective to critically examine what they consume

Danah Boyd "It's Complicated the social lives of networked teens" p177 http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/

Discourses are ‘practices that systematically form the objects of which they speak

Foucault, M. Power/knowledge selected interviews and other writings. 1972-1977. New York, NY

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses, not to take medicines

William Osler

Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution; the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution.

Rudolf Virchow

#Virchow #medicine

Knowledge is relevant only when it begins with the experiences students bring with them from the surrounding culture (in this case bullying and confronting homophobia); it is critical only when these experiences are sometimes shown to be problematic; and it is transformative only when students begin to use the knowledge to help empower others, including individuals in the surrounding community.

McLaren, P. (2009). Critical pedagogy: A look at the major concepts. In A. Darder, M. P. Baltodano, & R. D. Torres (Eds.), The critical pedagogy reader (2nd ed., pp. 61–83). New York, NY: Routledge.

#Critical Pedagogy #knowledge #experience

Higher education needs more bravery. Digital pedagogy, or any experimental critical pedagogy, is necessarily dangerous, often with real risks for both instructors and students, much of which can be valuable for learning. But when we experiment with our pedagogies, we confront an establishment that can be hostile to anything new -- an establishment that often punishes rather than rewards innovation -- that increasingly enforces the standardization of curriculums and classroom practice.

A Scholarship of Resistance: Bravery, Contingency, and Higher Education

Food for thought!

#pelc13 Whalley: it's a tragic fact that most of us only know how to be taught: we haven't learnt how to learn

— Donald Clark (@DonaldClark) April 11, 2013

Does technology enhance learning? It’s not unreasonable to ask this question, but unfortunately it’s the wrong question. A better question is: how can we design technology that enhances learning, and how can we measure that enhancement?

Adrian Kirkwood, Linda Price. (2013) Technology-enhanced learning and teaching in higher education: what is ‘enhanced’ and how do we know? A critical literature review. Learning, Media and Technology doi:10.1080/17439884.2013.770404

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn" - Alvin Toffler

Thinking about networked learning and serendipity... "The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious" — Heraclitus (sixth century)

https://findings.com/clips/80BCoV/think-better-an-innovators-guide-to-prod/

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“…although the people I worked with had the cultural values of a “community,” their social structure was quite unlike the paradigmatic gemeinschaft. Their social world had an abundance of formal organizations, but most individuals appeared tomake decisions withreference to personal contacts that often cut~across organizational boundaries. I tried to capture this configuration with the label “network” and applied it to the class system, one of the foci of my inquiries.”

Barnes J A. Class and committees in a Norwegian island parish (via amanca)

"A healthy process for learning in paragogy consists in a direct evolution of the four principles of parliamentary democracy: (1) The right to speak; (2) The right to be heard; (3) The right to listen; (4) The right to cooperate in the proliferation of options, that is, the right to “co-lead” in the decision-making system." – Fabrizio Terzi

From Peer Learning to “Peeragogy”

The rhizome pertains to a map that must be produced, constructed, a map that is always detachable, connectible, reversible, modifiable, and has multiple entryways and exits and its own lines of flight. (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, 21)

Rhizomatic Learning – Why we teach?

"If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, there will emerge the love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new center. The love needs involve giving and receiving affection. When they are unsatisfied, a person will feel keenly the absence of friends, mate, or children. Such a person will hunger for relations with people in general - for a place in the group or family - and will strive with great intensity to achieve this goal. Attaining such a place will matter more than anything else in the world and he or she may even forget that once, when hunger was foremost, love seemed unreal, unnecessary, and unimportant. Now the pangs of loneliness, ostracism, rejection, friendlessness, and rootlessness are preeminent."

A. Maslow - Motivation and Personality

Could this sense of belonging be interpreted as the need to create connections, share, communicate, in a Social Media environment?

"Most content is finite and contained; whereas, learning is chaotic and indeterminate. It’s relatively easy to create technological infrastructures to deliver content, harder to build relationships and learning communities to help mediate, inflect, and disrupt that content."

by Jesse Stommel

#MOOC #education

“The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated...”

Michel Foucault - The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

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