Tomorrow’s London meet-up has Andrew Davis (MySpace, BBC,EdExcel) on why teachers need to understand social media
Looking forward to this – Thanks to Lucy Johnson (@clumie on Amplify or @creativeducator on Twitter) for setting this up! Clipped from http://www.meetup.com Andrew Davis on applying social media to help schools and educational institutes We’ve invited Andrew Davis of Edexel, Myspace and the BBC to come and chat to us. Andrew is is the … Continue reading
A vision of peer-to-peer learning in organisations, interview with @olliegardener and London meet-up
Here’s the intro of an extended interview I did with Olaug Nørsterud Gardener a few weeks ago. Ollie describes the thinking behind NoddlePod, her company’s first offering for making work-based learning more relevant and useful. Ollie is in London on 15 December, and we’re aiming to run a meet-up to talk more about the principles … Continue reading
Do you agree with these seven characteristics of self-managed learning – 7 S’s? via @fredgarnett
Another mnemonic (… though I’m not sure it’s good mnemonic design (a) to have 7 elements and (b) all with the same initial letter). I think some people I know would disagree with some of these characteristics — especially the points about structure. The descriptions below are just the introductions to each characteristic: click through … Continue reading
Not drivers, but openers: overview of what Curtis Bonk thinks will transform learning
I read the “sampler” of Curtis Bonk’s The World is Open (http://worldisopen.com/) on a Kindle. The ideas/words ratio seemed too low for me to consider reading the book in full. However, I like the idea that what’s changing the learning landscape is not so much a set of drivers as “openers”. These are technologies and … Continue reading
Learners’ control, creation and chaos: @gsiemens’ convictions are more interesting than what he’s left behind
George Siemens himself has focused attention on the questions he’s no longer asking about the role of technology in learning. But along the way he gives a concise summary of the convictions about what makes learning work that he’s gained from his experience. I can’t help feeling this list is more important than the list … Continue reading
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