Fitting education into the smarter world
This new IBM ad tells us: “When systems connect the world gets smarter.” There is a principle here that should be central to how we reconfigure education. Throwing a lot of money at education that is...
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Networks will platform 21st century learning
The internet is a network platform in which humankind is embedding everything it knows. Educators who are building the future of learning are using the networked, embedded knowledge that the internet...
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Visions of network governance
Vivek Kundra is the U.S. CIO, appointed by President Obama. CIO = Chief Information Officer. At the Personal Democracy Forum, that I attended this week, CIO Kundra “pulled back the curtain,” as the PdF...
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Interacting web patterns, link love, and the literati
The internet is a swamp full of gold. It is the patterns of connections among the bits of gold that cause dross to float away and allow us to connect to refined and authenticated meaning. As I wrote...
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The Blue Brain waves patterns to educators
The Blue Brain project, first reported on GoldenSwamp in January 2008, is the subject today of a Wall Street Journal feature: In Search for Intelligence, a Silicon Brain Twitches. The illustration...
View ArticlePicturing connections happening in life and online
The mechanisms inside of a living cell and inside the materials we read and see on the internet are remarkably similar. Both emerge and network from the complexity of many, many little pieces that...
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Testing students as nodes releases them from class notches
The emerging networked system that increasingly links a student to knowledge, teachers, other students — and now testing — will release that student to compete globally. Treating a student as is our...
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Online knowledge organizes itself better than educators can do it
A recent GoldenSwamp.com post posits how knowledge for learning is growing as a superorganism from which everyone on earth can learn. That superorganism is a network that lives within the open...
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Trees communicate using mycorrhizal network
Learn some fascinating facts about forest interactivity from Brian Lamb’s post Do trees communicate? Networks, networks… and from the 5-minute video by Dr. Suzanne Simard embedded there. Wow: Nature’s...
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Underlying tension for millennials against standardized education
The way Millennials live their lives — creating their own iPod playlists, designing their own Facebook pages grates against one-size-fits-all, industrial-era public education policies . . . . The...
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