Dave Nicholls
Lecturer, physiotherapist, postmodern Foucauldian scholar, family man and lover of a good cup of tea, football, baseball, organic gardening and woodwork.
Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition. Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher, literary critic, art critic, and film critic.
He was born in Paris, and was educated at the Lycée Carnot and at the Sorbonne. He taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, at the University of Lyon (1964-69), and at the University of Paris VIII-Vincennes (1969-87). At Vincennes, he met the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari (1930-92), with whom he co-authored Capitalisme et Schizophrenie (1972, Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Volume I: Anti-Oedipus; Volume 2: A Thousand Plateaus) and Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?
(1991, What is Philosophy?). Difference and Repetition explains how a philosophy of difference may enable difference to become an affirmative concept. Pure difference may be reflected by complex repetition, because both difference and repetition may be independent of any relation of sameness, similarity, resemblance, or equivalence between events or meanings. Sense may be found in problems. Open Culture. Rhizomatic Learning. Online Learning & Knowledge Building. Educational Technology Guy. Professor Gráinne Conole. Professor of Learning Innovation Director, Institute of Learning Innovation Gráinne joined the Institute of Learning Innovation as Director on 1st September, 2011.
Prior to this, she was Chair of E-Learning at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, since April 2006. Previously, Grainne was Professor of Educational Innovation in Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Southampton, and was Director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, a centre of excellence on the development and use of information and communication technology in education.
Gráinne has research interests in the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies and e-learning and impact on organisational change. Contact details Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5720Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5725gcc7@le.ac.uk Publications (print version) Publications Books Conole, G. (2013) Designing for learning in an Open World, New York: Springer Book Chapters. Professor Gilly Salmon - PVC Learning Transformations - Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria. Where Social Learning is Stuck Today. Do you know the story of the elephant and the twig?
It’s the tragedy of social learning today: what is possible is not thinkable. It’s kind of difficult to plough through the clutter about social media and the stories of how it is supposed to reshape the way we are doing things today. The noise of the circus is getting so loud that nobody notices that we are almost stopped moving . The louder people are shouting, the less things seem to evolve.
One area in particular where this seems to be true is the area of ‘social learning’. Some time ago I argued that training is the unnatural de-contextualization of knowledge so it can fit into the context of multiple participants. Learning has a different disposition. The only way to sense if a problem is an interesting problem or to know if a solution is an elegant solution is by participating in the practices of a field.
Social Learning is not the same as the use of social media in the classroom. No we don’t need a newer version of our device. Just another WordPress.com site. Dave's Educational Blog. Stories. Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self, First Lecture, Part 1 of 7.