The Connected Courses experience been insightful. As someone who is still a student and hasn’t had the opportunity to independently lead my own course, I have been left with new ideas and a new perspective of how the nature of … Continue reading →
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My journey as a self-directed learner
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At age 6 I learned to read. I read about dinosaurs from a set of children’s science and nature books. A small story about T-Rex was the first one I read all by myself. After that a steady flow of childhood interests varying from dinosaurs and astronomy to Egyptology ended up on my dedicated notebooks […]
Inclusion: Walking the Walk
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I like the word inclusion. It means action. It forces needed change to take place. I think we can understand the importance of diversity and multiculturalism. We should assume heterogeneity. It is necessary to be knowledgeable of differences and prejudice … Continue reading →
Gender equality in science
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Science is evaluated by it’s quality. At least that is the ideal. In reality, there are a lot of biases and inequalities in play. While exploring the topic in Connected Courses I stumbled upon a recent report on women in academic science. This report by Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams highlights the early educational experiences […]
Tools matter – daily drawing challenge
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I took part in doodling my way through the Connected Courses: Daily Connect art challenge. I chose power point as my tool and noted that it really affected what I chose to draw. I tended to use much more repetition than in physical drawing, but also explored the colors more. Despite the tools of the […]
Do I really need a smart phone?
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My phone is not smart. It is entirely functional. It is small and has the battery lasts for a week at a time. I can call, text, and take photos intermediate quality. Hailing from Finland, the 90′s Nokia phones are the standard I compare all my phones. And I am not alone in this. While […]
The platform of web belongs to the people
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After watching the documentary “Aaron Swartz Internet’s own boy” it seemed to me that the people in high power positions and in charge of law lag behind on the current internet culture. And it is not only internet culture, it is the whole atmosphere in society. For a while the interest of young people in […]
Web as a basic human right should have a built in responsibility of curation
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Is web and access to web a basic human right like freedom from torture or the right to a fair trial? People seem to think so. And my home country Finland was the first country to include it in the law in 2009. It does make a lot of sense when we consider the basic […]
Nugget: Illusion of well-oiled machines and predictable serenity
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We live in a world that works well if the pieces are stable and have predictable effects on one another. We think of complex institutions and organizations as being like well-oiled machines that work reliably and almost serenely so long as their subordinate pieces perform their designated tasks. -2002 David Weinberger “Small pieces loosely joined” […]
The Internet and Open Knowledge.
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Not only is web fluency is a requirement for success in most modern work and social environments, but language of networks and social structures are increasingly used in how we talk about the offline learning experience as well. The paradigm … Continue reading →