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Happy Family Day & Happy Chinese New Year’s – Year of the Monkey

Aaron

I am fascinated by this image, and this lawsuit.  It seems to me this raises some questions of what it means to be human…  [Also, this is a Macaque, and is that a monkey (yes).]  Or perhaps interdependence, my favourite topic….   and it’s about social media, which is another interest of mine.  Selfies 2.0 – to whom do they belong? You can read more about this here. It’s not all as silly a stream of thinking as it might seem at first…  it harkens back to some of our earlier social history of segregation. How we historically othered and … Continue reading Happy Family Day & Happy Chinese New Year’s – Year of the Monkey

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#clmooc Remediation Make Cycle 2

Aaron

I’ve been really fascinated by what’s coming across my social media feeds as educators of all kinds have tackled the idea of “reMEDIAtion” over the last week in the #clmooc group.  As my avocation is special education for adults, I … Continue reading #clmooc Remediation Make Cycle 2

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#CLMOOC the deconstructed introduction

Aaron

The first suggestion from the #CLMOOC folks arrived today: So, what’s the first thing you usually do when you enter a room of folks with some familiar and unfamiliar faces—you introduce yourself, right? So let’s unravel “the introduction” to dive into the Connected Learning principle of equity. The theme this week is Unmaking Introductions. Let’s consider the ways we name, present, and represent ourselves and the boundaries or memberships those introductions create. How do we name ourselves in different contexts—personally? professionally? online? What happens when those contexts converge? How might we take apart our introductions to answer some of these … Continue reading #CLMOOC the deconstructed introduction