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This is one of my favourite reads in the blogosphere. Konrad Glogowski is a Language Arts teacher and PhD candidate in Ontario. His list of categories aligns closely with many of the things I regard as important in blogging specifically, and education/literacy generally. Lately he’s talking about connectivism, a name that has been coined for what I used to think of the holisticity of learning. “Everything is just a part of everything anyway” 60s singer Donovan told us, and principles of connectivism point the same way. More on this at another time, but take a look at the “blog of proximal development” - you might find it as thought-provoking as I do.

The Zone of Proximal Development, as defined by Vygotsky, is the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.

Originally posted by Dale