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Bonni Stachowiak discusses simplifying Personal Knowledge Mastery using RSS in episode 614.

Bonni Stachowiak shares how to keep your Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) real simple with RSS on episode 614 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Rather than get that overwhelmed feeling of how hard it’s going to be to keep up, I don’t have to, and neither do you. Enter RSS, Real Simple Syndication. -Bonni Stachowiak It’s pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they’ve subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity. -Bonni Stachowiak It’s amazing what happens when, before we start trying to lecture or share information, we ask people to predict something. Even if they end up predicting incorrectly, there still is that connection where we’ve piqued their curiosity. -Bonni Stachowiak Resources Why Isn’t RSS More Popular By Now, by Bonni Stachowiak Real Simple Syndication, by Harold Jarche Inoreader Unread App The Indispensable Digital Research Tool I can Say, Without Lying, Saves Time, by Alan Levine (aka CogDog) RSS in Plain English, by Common Craft MiniRoll This Cozy Reading Life with Katie Linder The Transformers…

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Host: Bonni Stachowiak

Topics covered

• Personal Knowledge Mastery
• RSS
• Education Technology
• Curiosity in Learning
• Digital Tools

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Poll Everywhere

Products: Inoreader, Unread App

Books & works: Why Isn’t RSS More Popular By Now, Real Simple Syndication, The Indispensable Digital Research Tool I can Say, Without Lying, Saves Time, RSS in Plain English, MiniRoll, This Cozy Reading Life with Katie Linder, The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing

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