[Disclosure: My family and I are part of the homeschooling community.]
A combination of a fairly feisty state of mind and George Siemen’s latest post on his Connectivism blog titled “Technologically Externalized Knowledge and Learning” has got me seriously riled up tonight – not at George mind you, but at the state of education as we know it.
In setting the scene for a discussion on “finding a cure for stale ideologies,” George discusses some of the issues with traditional views on learning, as well as some of the shortcomings of those …

Very early on into the CCK08 course I made a connection between the concepts being discussed in the course and those much more specific to my own context.  I have, however, been trying to avoid discussing it – largely out of fear of being branded a radical and burnt at the stake by traditionalists.  Yet something Stephen Downes said in the CCK08 Ustream.TV recording from 19 September really struck a chord with me and I’d like to explore the idea here now.
In discussing the notion of how Connectivism relates to …