This is a note to remember to come back to the topic at some point. So, do not expect anything very elaborated. I’ll still start with a quotation from Foucault (Michel Foucault from Wikiquote): There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than […]
Author: Teemu Leinonen
Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
It was fall 2006 when I proposed for several people in the Finnish National Board of Education and in the Ministry of Education to put The National Core Curricula (equivalent to “national curriculum” in other countries), on a wiki, so that the citizens could discuss about it and edit it. I got very positive replies […]
My brother is today defending his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Tampere in Finland. Because I am now in Northern California I am not able to attend the public defense of the dissertation. I got, however, the actual book on my screen and printer. Thanks to open publishing. The University of Tampere is […]
Last weekend I took part in the RecentChangesCamp – a three day open space conference for people interested in wikis and related topics. I met some new and old wiki-people, which some of them I may soon start to call my friends. I saw several interesting demos and had some quite nice discussions about wikis […]
The next issue of eLearning Papers, a series by the elearningeuropa.info-portal, focuses on Open Educational Resources (OER). The eLearning Papers looks for articles on OER and their use in education at all levels, taking into account the aspects of global development and Web 2.0. The contributions should focus on one or more of the following […]
The latest news from the OLPC world are no news. So, the OLPC is now more or less officially and primary a laptop project – not an education project. Why I am not surprised? I think publicly traded technology companies suddenly making add-value for the children of the developing world instead of their shareholders would […]
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Wikimedia – media for all
A good media report is such that whatever opinion you hold about the topic, you’ll find the report supporting your point of view. I think the Dutch documentary “The Truth According To Wikipedia” does exactly this. In the video Ndesanjo Macha makes some excellent remarks being same time amused, cynical, despairing and hopeful. If you […]
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Making things slower and better
In a couple of last months I have been visiting two times the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. I know their projects very well from online, but visiting physical places made me think about them differently. Physical world is so immersive – you know. “The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s […]
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Stories, learning and ignorance
This is not a great story. This is a fragmented note I am making to this blog. The thesis of the post is: Learning is story telling. Avoid ignorance. Learning is story telling because we make sense of the world through stories. Teachers job has always been story telling. This should be in the core […]
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From social to socialist media
The title is a chapter in a new book by Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén. Here is an introdcution of the book from the blog of the book, where you can also download the full book: WIKIWORLD – Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media In the digital world of learning there is a […]
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