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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Dave Cormier posts his annual list of the year's top events. No, 'edupunk' is not on it, though I suppose he can be forgiven for this. Blogging is dead, Wikipedia is old, and a good dose of "blah blah blah." Right now, from my perspective, the people who "just don't get it" seem to be ruling the roost - or, at least, the press reports. This won't hold; their credibility is the same as (and tied to) that of financial managers and the old new right. Tired ideas about central control and the ascendancy of capitalism and the laissez-faire commercial marketplace. Right now, it is radical to say, "My instrument of learning can learn." Soon, we will be able to usher in a new era which begins with the recognition that everybody learns, and takes it from there.

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