Susan Smith Nash has a post reporting some research that Rehearsal and Repetition May Be Bad For Learning.
There’s some interesting implications here and I wish she’d post the cite…
Sharon Smaldino has been cruisin’ thru the archives here at CogDiss and posting comments! Who woulda thought!?
Like this one from “Why?”
[Y]ou guys are sitting here, on the porch in some back woods general store where the dirt road isn
Over this last weekend I discovered where my hosting service stashed my server logs. They keep changing boxes on me in an ongoing search for the ideal platform. After downloading the log archive, I ran them thru AWSTATS to see if there’s anything going on here.
Wow.
In Sept 2004, the first month of the new server, there were 171 visitors to the host. That dropped to 134 in October.
October was when I really started the CogDiss blog with WordPress.
In Nov 2004, the site had 495 visitors. The CogDiss main page got just over 1100 views.
As of Sunday March 27th, we had 1380 visitors for the month. The CogDiss blog main page was viewed over 3200 times! Terra Incognita’s main page got 1440 views.
And that’s just this month!
I don’t have a break down of page by unique visitor — or if I do, I haven’t found it in AWSTATS yet. But that still looks like the readership for CogDiss has about tripled in four months.
There’s only one thing I can say to that.
Thank you!
Johannes revives David Wiley’s Pitch with
A good example of what I’m complaining about with the whole publication issue.
If I’m gonna throw rocks at what is, I figger I need to be willing to offer some solutions as well.
Here’s the concept.
I’ve been banging around this idea of a peer reviewed, online journal in various forums for a while now. The thematic notion is that it should be an academic journal dealing with research into design, distance, cognition … basically anything we would expect to see in any of the mainstream publications. I’m looking to create a “classic” publication that takes advantage of the “modern” technology. What makes it different will be:
- peer reviewed: we’ll assemble a peer review panel and their comments will be published WITH the articles
- published Just-in-time: as each article clears peer review, it’ll be posted.
- RSS supported: each new article appears in the feed (Innovate already *almost* does this)
- Creative Commons: Each article is published with an appropriate Creative Commons license attributed to the AUTHOR, not the journal. (Are there any that already do this?)
- Moderated Comments/Trackbacks enabled on all publications (spam control)
Suggestions for titles:
Cognitive Disruption
Gnomon
Journal of Disruptive Innovation
Quantum Cognition
Locus of Control
Esoteric Scholar
Ubiquitous Review
Mike Barbour says I need a title that doesn’t need an explanation but given the differences in this proposed publication, I’m not sure that he’s right.
So. What’s your take? What would be a good title? How far can we push the envelope? What do you think of this idea?
Like any really big explosion, there are still lots of big chunks up in the air. Every so often another big chunk crashes back to earth somewhere. The trick is to be not standing where it lands.
In talking to Donal yesterday, he pointed out that my rant on copyright had one serious flaw. Copyright is irrelevant. When we all have the means of production, the limit on ownership becomes moot. When we all have the means of collating information from source data, education becomes something we each do for ourselves. When we all have the means of by-passing authority, governments become irrelevant.
Governments don’t like to be irrelevant. It takes all the fun away. This is a dangerous time because governments tried to lock down the means of production. When they couldn’t do that, they tried to lock down the means of distribution. They couldn’t do that, and now they’re trying to lock down thought through religious fundamentalism. They’ll lock my brain when they pry it from my cold, dead body, but a dinosaur in his death throes can still crush you if you stand too close.
What’s left now is how to make a living in the aftermath.
apcampbell : Blogging Toward Learner Autonomy
Generally speaking, there are five problems I see in the individual mind and in society at large:* A atomistic, egocentric view of self,
* An underdeveloped capacity to think critically, which leads to…
* A crippled individual agency: no feeling of personal power to change and shape things, which leads to…
* A lack of participation in community and society, and…
* An unhealthy, ‘blind faith’ type dependency on authority and the institutions of society.
I met Aaron thru an online course in Blogging for ESL/EFL teachers. He’s got a lot more to say on this subject in the full post.
I had the sorry experience of watching two small children trying to watch a new DVD on a computer this week. It wouldn’t play. The DVD player was in good condition — it would play the “extra features” disk just fine. But the main feature didn’t show up when the DVD was mounted. This was a brand new DVD that a colleague purchased for the purpose of entertaining her children. She was not attempting to hack, rip, or otherwise defeat the protection scheme of the media. She just wanted to entertain her kids for a little while so she could work.
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This conversation is evolving … but I’m not sure what it’s evolving into.
For the moment I want to back up from the Quantum Cognition notion until we can get some agreement on scope of definition. I’m struggling with this “Learning” construct that involves things outside of me.
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