Comments on: Teaching and Learning With Technology Institute http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/06/04/teaching-and-learning-with-technology-institute/ "Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: A Nice Touch | Learning In a Flat World http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/06/04/teaching-and-learning-with-technology-institute/comment-page-1/#comment-456 A Nice Touch | Learning In a Flat World Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:45:56 +0000 http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/?p=179#comment-456 [...] equally fun to reflect on how far I have come in the past year.  I just went back and looked at my blog posts from one year ago.  I had forgotten that just one year ago we both changed our office locations and I bought my [...] [...] equally fun to reflect on how far I have come in the past year.  I just went back and looked at my blog posts from one year ago.  I had forgotten that just one year ago we both changed our office locations and I bought my [...]

]]> By: Colin http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/06/04/teaching-and-learning-with-technology-institute/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Colin Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:12:57 +0000 http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/?p=179#comment-175 Thanks for bringing Taleb's book to my attention Britt, I'm always on the lookout for another 'lens' trough which to consider the world of ideas. (Particularly liked your confession that you started reading the book to unwind & look where that got you!) The idea of taking the risk to look into what we don't know - or at least focus in that direction is very powerful and a first step on a learning journey. Very different to sitting around agreeing on what we know. Isn't the tricky thing finding time to think about what we don't know - I suppose that's what your institutes's about. A few days out to go beyond the boundaries... I'm looking forward to seeing the map of academic collaboration. Hopefully it will provide me with some ideas on how I can further develop our use of Web 2.0 for that sort of work/activity... Thanks for bringing Taleb’s book to my attention Britt, I’m always on the lookout for another ‘lens’ trough which to consider the world of ideas. (Particularly liked your confession that you started reading the book to unwind & look where that got you!)

The idea of taking the risk to look into what we don’t know – or at least focus in that direction is very powerful and a first step on a learning journey. Very different to sitting around agreeing on what we know. Isn’t the tricky thing finding time to think about what we don’t know – I suppose that’s what your institutes’s about. A few days out to go beyond the boundaries…

I’m looking forward to seeing the map of academic collaboration. Hopefully it will provide me with some ideas on how I can further develop our use of Web 2.0 for that sort of work/activity…

]]> By: Britt http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/06/04/teaching-and-learning-with-technology-institute/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Britt Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:32:26 +0000 http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/?p=179#comment-173 Thanks, Gardner. I am picking up on the wisdom and appreciate your perspective (and examples of use) of this book. Thanks, Gardner. I am picking up on the wisdom and appreciate your perspective (and examples of use) of this book.

]]> By: Gardner http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2008/06/04/teaching-and-learning-with-technology-institute/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Gardner Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:37:58 +0000 http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/?p=179#comment-172 Great book and very thoughtful post. Keep at it: the book is as good at the end as it is at the outset. I also think about Taleb's insistence on thinking about outliers, on rejecting bell-curve metrics of "scalable" stuff, and especially his condemnation of "domain-specific" education. Much, much wisdom there. I started working his stuff into my own practice and presentations immediately. Even brought the book in to the last day of one of my classes, to talk about how poetry is a tool for bridging and juxtaposing domains. Great book and very thoughtful post. Keep at it: the book is as good at the end as it is at the outset. I also think about Taleb’s insistence on thinking about outliers, on rejecting bell-curve metrics of “scalable” stuff, and especially his condemnation of “domain-specific” education. Much, much wisdom there. I started working his stuff into my own practice and presentations immediately. Even brought the book in to the last day of one of my classes, to talk about how poetry is a tool for bridging and juxtaposing domains.

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