Why I spent 10th grade online. I loved it.
During the year, I made a film about a man who stands in downtown Washington holding signs urging Monday morning commuters to smile. I completed a Google Science Fair project that studied whether reminding high school students that they may be tired affects their problem-solving skills. I also tried and failed, at least so far, to develop a mobile app called UPliftr that prompts users to do good deeds, such as holding a door open for a stranger, letting another driver cut in or giving someone an unexpected high five. Click - Openness in a digital age. The digital age has created unimaginable opportunities for people across the world, to learn, share and communicate in a global conversation.
The BBC World Service has closely documented that conversation for ten years, first as Go Digital (which launched in 2001) then, as the world went digital, so did the programme - becoming Digital Planet. Another year, another change, and in Spring 2011, Digital Planet took the name of its television sibling. Click. When the programme began, it started by charting the so-called ‘digital divide’.
(11) Twitter. Open Ed 12 - Gardner Campbell Keynote - Ecologies of Yearning. Activity 3: Representing open education. I have created a mind map depicting some of the key concepts of open education as outlined in Weller, M. (2012).
This visual representation is far from being complete and what is missing in particular is the idea of mutual dependence between openness and creativity: whilst creativity can be a product of openness (in fact, different forms of creativity as shown in the examples of little OERs and big OERs), it is also, in the form of the essential sharing of ideas and resources, described as a prerequisite of openness.
Weller, M. (2012) ‘The openness–creativity cycle in education’, Special issue on Open Educational Resources, JIME, Spring 2012 [online]. Available at (accessed 21 March 2012). Like this: Terry Anderson Alt C Final. The openness-creativity cycle in education.