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Soft things, hard things and invisible elephants
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Jon Dron bookmarked Change MOOC home page November 8, 2011 - 2:05am

The home site for the change11 MOOC

http://change.mooc.ca/index.html
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Jon Dron created a wiki page Examples November 8, 2011 - 1:43am

Here are two simple examples of the kind of thing I have in mind for specifying a soft technology in an appropriate format. Neither is particularly good and both could definitely be improved or refined. They could also be presented more wonderfully....
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Jon Dron created a wiki page Playing November 8, 2011 - 1:41am

Designing soft technologies This is an activity to help get a stronger sense of what I mean by a soft technology, what one looks like and how it works. It is also quite good fun and might actually lead to some useful ideas and new (soft)...
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Jon Dron created a wiki page Recommended activities November 8, 2011 - 1:40am

This page and its sub-pages provide some activities that will help you to understand some of the main ideas behind soft and hard technologies for learning and, hopefully, to apply them. The main activities will be: A live session on...
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  an unauthenticated user of the Landing November 23, 2011 - 10:59am
  Great intro - now thinking about turning your outline into a 'technelephant' as cousin to Mooc Cow. Needs some help in the sketching/artistry department. Initial thoughts:
  Hard tusks – poky stuff that doesn’t work right
  Big ears – listen broadly, deeply
  Trunk – pick up new things, chew on them, digest them, see if they taste right
  Sturdy feet – foundation of openness, sharing
  Travels in packs
  Tail swats away flies
  Big soft belly, wise eyes
  
  - brainysmurf
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Jon Dron created a wiki page Quick overview of the main ideas November 8, 2011 - 1:38am

The nature of technologies All technologies are assemblies that orchestrate phenomena to some purpose (Arthur, 2009). They may consist of, use or embody tools that may be physical or conceptual or...