http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/blogs-in-education-30/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/blogs-in-education-30/comment-page-1/#comment-1407 Will R. Tue, 10 May 2005 08:36:37 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/blogs-in-education-30/#comment-1407 <a></a>Absolutely great comment Terry. I'm glad you're back and blogging. Absolutely great comment Terry. I’m glad you’re back and blogging.

]]> http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/blogs-in-education-30/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 Terry Elliott Tue, 10 May 2005 07:41:53 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/blogs-in-education-30/#comment-1406 <a></a>If there is one insight to come out of cognitive linguistics over the past twenty-five years, it is Lakoff and Johnson's theory that the core of thought is metaphoric. We don't just use metaphor as a critical and analytic term and tool. We are metaphoric in our brains. "Classroom" implies an enclosure, a bottle of sorts, a boundary that encloses. What happens when technology breaks the bottle? You have a blogwikiflickrfurlicious open space full of connections. Edblogging 3.0 is the birth of new metaphors for new experience. I oversimplify, but I think we edbloggers hold both metaphors (classroom and connected-open space) in our hearts simultaneously. We live in both worlds, yet we know one of them is a dead man walking. If there is one insight to come out of cognitive linguistics over the past twenty-five years, it is Lakoff and Johnson’s theory that the core of thought is metaphoric. We don’t just use metaphor as a critical and analytic term and tool. We are metaphoric in our brains. “Classroom” implies an enclosure, a bottle of sorts, a boundary that encloses. What happens when technology breaks the bottle? You have a blogwikiflickrfurlicious open space full of connections. Edblogging 3.0 is the birth of new metaphors for new experience. I oversimplify, but I think we edbloggers hold both metaphors (classroom and connected-open space) in our hearts simultaneously. We live in both worlds, yet we know one of them is a dead man walking.

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