Exploring other perspectives on the world we live and learn in
It might be fruitful to cease thinking of technologies as all-embracing. One possible way of doing so would be to start by asking ourselves some basic questions: Where are we going? Why are we going there? How do we plan to get there? How does this fit into the larger scheme of things?… (Belonging and being excluded)…
Belonging and being excluded – What does belonging imply? And being excluded? Is not the unachievable aim of universal access bound to produce exclusion… (read more)
Connected Magazine, May. 14th, 1997.…
We do not think by making logical deductions or following formal rules; we think by manipulating mental models which, most of the time, take the form of images. Pierre Lévy, Trees of Knowledge. (Trees of Knowledge).…
Trees of knowledge – Based on an interview of him, Pierre Lévy postulates a new language to provide a dynamic representation of thought models, giving the Tree of Knowledge as an example. (read more)
Connected Magazine, Jul. 7th 1997.…
There may be a fundamental and insurmountable contradiction between the disempowerment embodied in the role of schools as guardians of young people and the vision of schooling as the empowerment of individuals and groups as deciders in their own learning processes… (Ambient schooling: Putting learning back into life)…
Ambient schooling: Putting learning back into life – Taking a different perspective on learning as an integral part of all activities with the pedagogical, societal and ethical implications implied… (read more)
Connected Magazine, May 25th, 2003.…
Prayer – Going beyond emotional intelligence – Starting from Emotional Intelligence as a concept aimed at improving ourselves and our relationship to the world, I introduce prayer as an activity also undertaken to improve both ourselves and the world around us, but from an all-embracing spiritual perspective… (read more)
Connected Magazine, Apr. 25th, 2000.…
Are we learning or managing competences? – Without some form of feedback and subsequent evaluation, no learning – in the very broadest sense of the word – can take place. Life is not possible without learning, as life in all its facets involves ongoing processes of change and adaptation that require us to learn… (read more)
Connected Magazine, Feb 15th, 1999.…
Complexity and the Networked Society – In their book “The New Alliance” Isabelle Stengers and Ilya Prigogine write “It is no longer stable situations or permanency that interest us, but rather evolutions, crises and instabilities“… (read more)
Connected Magazine, Dec. 8th, 1998. …
Emotional Skills on the Internet – The Internet has a rather confused image in terms of emotions. On the one hand, as a complex technical system, it is frequently portrayed as evacuating emotions and depersonalising relationships. Or if there are emotions, they are seen to be doubtful, fake, phoney, unreal … (read more)
Connected Magazine, Mar.…