{"id":2033,"date":"2014-01-18T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2015-04-28T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:29:59","slug":"on-cheating-and-philosophy-for-rhizo14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2014\/01\/18\/on-cheating-and-philosophy-for-rhizo14\/","title":{"rendered":"On cheating and philosophy (for #rhizo14)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m participating (as much as I have time for, which isn’t much) in a course on Peer 2 Peer University called<\/span> Rhizomatic Learning<\/a><\/span>, run by<\/span> Dave Cormier<\/a><\/span>. The first topic for this course is on “cheating as learning” (here’s<\/span> an intro video about the topic<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

My day job takes up all of my time and more, so when I kept finding myself unable to sit down and write a blog post, I took a cue from<\/span> Scottlo<\/a><\/span> over at<\/span> ds106 radio<\/a><\/span>, who often does live broadcasts or recordings while in transit–in the car, walking, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n

The only problem with this one is that I was rushing to get to work, walking quickly, so I got pretty out of breath sometimes talking at the same time!<\/span><\/p>\n

I realize that by recording rather than writing this I am limiting my audience to those who don’t mind taking 15 minutes to listen to something and try to remember enough to maybe comment. I’m also limiting my own future use of these thoughts, because it’s much easier to go back and skim something than to listen to it all the way through. It’s very hard to “skim” an audio recording! But it worked for the purposes of me not having much time to sit down and write. Hopefully I’ll be able to write posts for later on in this course.<\/span><\/p>\n

For now, here are my thoughts on what “cheating” might mean in terms of questioning rules of traditional practice when teaching philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n