Information, Communication and Technology for Emergence (ICT4E)– An Immersive Learning Community Blended with Virtual Worlds and Web 2.0

There is an urgent need to transform our educational ecosystems and address the rapid transformations occurring in our world, especially the crisis confronting our survival. Are these needs linked and can we address them together? Educators around the globe are discovering and embracing virtual worlds, such as Second Life, for immersing [...]

More about Ontogenetica

The ceation of being. Not in a heavy sense. Not burdoned by being, but the incredible lightness of being. And this is offered in a ‘hyper-techontic’ fashion, energized by the quickly evovling web and technology. But this is not a constructivist theory. Being, resonating emergence, is a spontaneous ever changing phenomenon which we participate in [...]

Architectonic

I’m begining to understand the activities of engaging in the virtual creation of being as creating an architectonic. I’m specifically using this to describe the elements of my web 2.0 activity as revealing a design ecology where by the aggregating elements hold together in a non-linear fashion. (Granted, I’m just begining to stumble around) What [...]

Media Ecology Musings

The media is the message. How very apt for Second Life. I’m just begining to graple with these things and feeling like I’ve been asleep at the wheel. Since i’m new to blogging, the blogosphere is overwhelming. I’m one of those people for whom 1 + 1 = one.

So muddling along, [...]

Media Ecology

Attended the in world lecture by Bob Logan on Media Ecology last night in Second Life. I still don’t have the slightest idea what media ecology is. The idea that mathematical need and writing occured simultaneously–with priests counting cows or whatever in Mesopotamia–is interesting and I have to think about that. [...]