Comments on: Still pushing through the CCK08 woods

By: Anne Davis

Anne Davis — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:08:24 +0000

Matt,
The hardest and the most important part! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.

Best,
Anne

By: Anne Davis

Anne Davis — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:07:34 +0000

Keith,
I think you are absolutely right, CCK08 will be an important part of my on-going support for teachers and students. Thanks for your nice comment.

Best,
Anne

By: Anne Davis

Anne Davis — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:05:52 +0000

Shel,
Thank you for responding and sharing your thoughts. What you are doing is not small potatoes, we just have to continue to be creative and make those attempts that are outside the box. Change will come. I find this course very interesting and I am enjoying just letting myself learn in my own way at my own pace at this particular time. Do you have a blog? I would enjoy adding it to my daily reads!

Best,
Anne

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:58:11 +0000

Thanks for sharing these important insights on how to reach kids. Sometimes that is really the hardest part of any educator’s job.

Matt

By: Shel

Shel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:05:03 +0000

Anne, thanks for sharing these thoughts with us. I had a ‘that’s me!’ moment reading your blog as it resonates strongly with my experience in CCK08. I’ve done quite a bit reading too, but really many of the pieces open other paths to follow that within the time constraints are difficult to pursue. So, I’m left with a niggling pressure to make up my mind about certain points, to fix myself as confidently as I need to be, on a point on the continuum of thought on connectivism.

One of the issues for me is that, and I’m referring to the discussion session between George, Stephen and others on Wednesday night [22nd October] for example, I often find both, or differing perspectives attractive. So while agreeing that ‘we’ can’t/shouldn’t tell learners what they’re going to learn, and it should be about learning what you want, my work role involves instructionally designing [sorry for terms here!] or attempting to create environments and solutions that will help participants get to a certain outcome. And of course, like most formal learning, this may not be their choice of subject/content as individuals at all, but is something that has been decided by others, Human Resources, Learning and Development etc. So like you, I feel it will be interesting to see how we move towards some of the practicalities here, practicalities constrained by work roles I’m afraid. Learning to learn is crucial and in number of e-learning courses I’ve created in the past, I would frequently try and include a resource that would invite and tempt learners to reflect on their way of learning, what’s actually happening at this point during their learning and how they might evolve their own learning strategy going forward. Small potatoes I know, but a gesture I suppose.

Thanks again for a great post, really enjoyed, and for the link to Stephen Downes ‘Things you Really Need to Learn’,
Shel

By: CCK08: Coming to Know « Clyde Street

CCK08: Coming to Know « Clyde Street — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:15:34 +0000

[...] I am looking forward to Shel’s ‘Diary of a wanna-be Connectivist’. I think Anne’s post from the woodlands would be of great interest to Shel. Once again I think Phillida would have [...]

By: Keith Lyons

Keith Lyons — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:21:08 +0000

Anne

I enjoyed reading about your woodland journey. I think the course is stimulating a lot of reflection over all sorts of landscapes. I imagine that CCK08 will be an important part of your on-going support for teachers and students.

Keith

By: Eugene

Eugene — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:53:44 +0000

looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene