As I look upon layer on layer of snow, I long to run my hands through the warm spring dirt, pulling out weeds and nurturing the plants I want to flourish. One weed I’ve fought with during much of my grown life has been bittersweet. The long woody orange roots seem to go on and on, branching here and there, and if you don’t get all of it, it comes back with a vengeance.

It has been a long day, and again, my time to write is limited. So, I’m writing about some other roots, roots of thoughts. The MOOCs I was participating in have ended, and I’m looking for some new MOOCs to participate in. In the MOOCs about teaching with Moodle, I started exploring Connectivism. So, I thought it would be interesting to see if there are any MOOCs about Connectivism. Instead, I found an article on Connectivist MOOCs

This lead me to Rhizomatic Learning – A Big Forking Course, and I had an interesting connection. I don’t remember how I first stumbled upon Dave Cornier and his work on Rhizomatic Learning, but it has been a topic I’ve been meaning to explore. It looks like all of this may come together in a MOOC towards the end of the month.

Related links are a section in Open Education. Section 5.4 is about Connectivism and Section 5.5 is about Rhizomatic Learning. Circling back, I visit Rhizomatic Learning – Why we teach?.

Rhizomatic learning is a way of thinking about learning based on ideas described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in a thousand plateaus.

The connection becomes more complicated. Guattari was an analysand of Lacan. I’ve long been interested in Lacan and from that Deleuze and Guattari. Now, to tie it all together into where groups, education, psychology and a whole bunch of other stuff meet.