CCK08: How to write assigned posts

(Translation in Italian)
Dear students,
here you have the rules to write the assigned posts. Assignments will arrive later on.
Rules are useful to work and cooperate in the complexity of our world. However, the validity of rules depend on context and, since context may always change, it is good to be observant but it is even better [...]

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CCK08: On writing posts for italian students in english

(Versione in italiano)
We met 10 times with about 200 students of 18 curricula distributed in 7 classes, so far. We have discussed with the students all the options they have as well as the first steps they must take to begin the course.
Among other things we agreed that my posts with their assignments and [...]

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Lezione in piazza?

Lunedì prossimo (27 ottobre) dovrei fare lezione agli studenti del Corso di Laurea Magistrale Teorie della Comunicazione per l’insegnamento Tecnologia di Comunicazione online.
Tuttavia la facoltà di Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione potrebbe essere occupata per via delle agitazioni relative alla Legge 133. Si pone quindi il problema di cosa fare.
Propongo di fare la lezione in [...]

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CCK08: Hidden connections?

(Versione in italiano)

Amazing, really. I read Developing Online From Simplicity toward Complexity: Going with the Flow of Non-Linear Learning and what I have found is a perfect description of my experiences with the blogroom I have quoted in other posts here.
In the short paper 1 I said that often one has the feeling that [...]

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CCK08: A couple of questions

Yes, let’s go for a walk in a wood and relax as many times as you like and with the passing of time you will know that wood in your own way. This means you will be looking for something there and you will disregard the rest.
Jørgen asked me if I’m establishing valuable connections in [...]

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CCK08: Networks, groups, nodes

Life struggles to emerge from the inexorable increase of entropy stated by the second law of thermodynamics with two legs: groups and networks.
As usual, we tend to dichotomise the discussion.
Groups and networks are synergic. Nodes are not a sort of dimensionless points but have structure. Internal structure of nodes is related to their functionality within [...]

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CCK08 Short Paper 1: Your position on Connectivism

To read about connectivism is somewhat funny for me. Something like …
{
learning
{
what I was feeling to know
[...]

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CCK08: Asking for help on network analysis of a blogroom

Oh, I enjoyed Valdis Kreb`s presentation Emerging networks (there are .pdf slides) very much. Pretty new stuff for me. I would like very much to try this kind of analysis in my blogrooms. Let’s make an example to look for useful hints.
With blogroom I mean the subset of the blogosphere constituted by the blog [...]

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CCK08: let’so go for a walk in a wood and relax …

It seems, perhaps not surprisingly, that many appear to be puzzled and sometimes annoyed by the chaotic structure of the course, even some of my italian classmates of the LTEver community.
Well, let’so go for a walk in a wood and relax …
What does it mean to know a wood?

to know its name?
to know the region [...]

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CCK08: Does Learning Grow or Is it Built?

The vision proposed by Stephen Downes …
Hence, in connectivism, there is no real concept of transferring knowledge, making knowledge, or building knowledge. Rather, the activities we undertake when we conduct practices in order to learn are more like growing or developing ourselves and our society in certain (connected) ways.
In What Connectivism Is
and by George Siemens
Connections [...]

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