Moderator. Critical thinking in the organization. Even the mainstream training field is realizing that reduced layers of bureaucracy mean decision-making gets pushed down the organization chart. This is the message of the AMA in the promotional video – Critical Thinking: Not just a C-suite skill. However, wirearchy takes this one important step further by advocating a two-way flow of power and authority. In both cases, the need for critical thinking is evident. Here is Edward Glaser’s definition: Critical thinking calls for a persistent effort to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends. A personal knowledge management process can help to develop critical thinking skills, where sense-making includes observing, studying, challenging (especially one’s assumptions), and evaluating. Several web tools can be used to develop critical thinking skills; the foundation of PKM:
aMap. aMap. aMap is short for ‘argument map’. The idea’s very simple – to promote the art of arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format. aMaps come in two different formats: - Printed pocket-sized aMap “argument guides”, which you can buy here - Interactive personalised aMaps, which you can make here aMap has been developed by a team led by Chris Quigley of Delib (part of Team Rubber ) to promote the art of arguing. Initial concepts were developed as part of an academic project in partnership with Perry Walker from the new economics foundation , and various wonderful brains from the LSE (see below for more info) To learn more about aMap, read Chris Quigley’s blog article entitled “What and Why?”
For press information, visit our press pack page The theory aMaps are based around the same structure as “informal logic” – this is the logic people use to argue in everyday life. When put into use, you get something like this: Project background. On Line Opinion. What is Web 2.0? Listening to the wide-ranging conversations regarding the Web 2.0 meme, I keep coming back to the old Buffalo Springfield lyric in “For What It’s Worth”: “There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.”
The skeptics like Tim Bray point out that this concept has come to mean anything that the speaker wants it to mean. The champions, most notably Tim O’Reilly, volley back that the rapid spread of the meme indicates that it “does capture the widespread sense that there’s something qualitatively different about today’s web.” There’s no denying that the meme has taken hold, having been developed only about 18 months ago by Dale Dougherty of O’Reilly Media. Unfortunately, as the Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 reports, Dale never really defined the term, using examples rather than a definition to communicate its meaning: "DoubleClick was Web 1.0; Google AdSense is Web 2.0.
Ofoto is Web 1.0; Flickr is Web 2.0. " Platform. Emerging. Network-centric. Creation. Users. Distributed. Teach and Learn Online. Blogs are NOT a Valid School Subject” Take a look at the comments on the C-Net article on blogs in schools and you’ll understand why we need, um, blogs in schools: Blogs are NOT a valid school subject. Blogs are a sloppy communications technique, rarely containing anything really worth while, and rank just one notch above text messaging on cell phones.
We’ve got kids who can’t add, can’t read, and can’t write in real sentences, and wouldn’t know a verb if it bit them. There’s where the real education effort needs to be placed. Sure, that’s not ‘fun’, and kids do want to play rather than learn, and teachers seem to go out of their way to avoid being actual teachers.Sorry folks, but US kids need real help, not junk like this teacher is peddling.
Where to begin. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. And the biggest irony is the comment comes from an “educator” who wants to stick with a system that he admits is “getting stomped in education.” Look, blogs and blogging are not a panacea for a system that by many accounts has not been able to keep pace.