{"id":1,"date":"2011-01-16T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2011-01-17T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T05:00:23","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pitfalls of Self-directed Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I was doing some shredding when inspiration hit me.\u00a0 Why not build a hidden scanner into a shredder and send copies of all these secret documents to someone’s email address?\u00a0 I figured someone must have already thought of that, and sure enough, a quick search took me to a tongue-in-cheek discussion about shredder\/scanners on a delightful website called the\u00a0halfbakery<\/a>.\u00a0 And half-baked it was.\u00a0 I spent the next hour reading one goofy proposal after another, commented and disected in all aparent seriousness by anonymous people with a cereberal sense of humor.\u00a0 It’s a valuable waste of time which I highly recommend to just about everyone whose blog I’ve read in ds106.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here’s the rest of my story, which illustrates why a self-directed PLE requires a good deal more discipline than I like to exercise.<\/p>\n