Why I am taking #rhizo14
I am cheating off of Maha Bali!
I read her post first and it inspired me to write mine, rather than to lurk.
I do not have a lot of experience in Rhizomatic Education. I'm a Master's student at Royal Roads writing my thesis on open textbooks. Professionaly my work is vocational training and project management for educational material. I began work as an instructional designer and editor.
I also write things. A lot of them. Mostly on gender and pop culture. You can find that on www.DanielleParadis.com, most recently on Hybrid Pedagogy.
Regarding cheating as a weapon. I heard a story about local fraternities (though to be honest the details are so scant that this could almost be an educational urban legend) saving old multiple choice tests so that incoming students were able to review them. This annoyed the professors because they felt that they had to change the exams all the time, or at least switch around a few questions.
What no one seemed to recognize was that the students were reviewing the questions and practicing rote memorization. Exactly the skills that the instructors were trying to impart.
I've also stolen a few tweets. You can find me on Twitter in two separate places! @daniparadis (where I tweet A LOT)
and @ebooks_dani
#rhizo14 "Cheating" is positive as long as it promotes metacognition and learning acquisition with practical meaningful transfer.
— Stella M. Berdaxagar (@SMBerdaxagar)
January 14, 2014
@merryspaniel my students used to call it "sticking it to the man" I like to call it an assisted learning environment. #rhizo14
— Shelley Pinder (@pinshe)
January 14, 2014
Rhizomatic learning : community as curriculum #rhizo14 Week 1: http://t.co/KP2Pbigt7k via @youtube
— monika hardy (@monk51295)
January 14, 2014