On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Jan Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
> This makes much sense to me, Maria, and I agree that, while attention to > familiarity with wiki syntax is an important entry point for the WE > platform, it is no more than just that. I would love to see increased > interest emerge in issues pertaining to questions about how we learn and how > we help other people learn, including through teaching, when it can’t be > avoided, but preferably through a wider variety of means and contexts. > > > > Jan > As an exercise, I spent five years never using the word "teaching" other than quoting literature. I highly recommend the exercise, which also works in shorter stretches of time, for anyone involved in helping others make sense of the world, create and join communities, or otherwise develop. Wiki and Ning are two platforms most suitable for community learning projects at the moment. They are open enough to support various community practices, and (with some platforms) easy to use with various embeddable social objects from other sites, in the "web as a platform" approach. The notion of a social object is extremely important for this conversation, yet almost nobody knows what it even is... Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
