Educators and the deep, blue digital …
The Learning Circuits Blog: The question for May is if there’s a difference between instructional design for digital immigrants vs. digital natives.
Karyn’s erratic learning journey: Responding to the question for May, Karyn says no and anyway, you have to do a fresh needs assessment for each instructional design project.
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In a comment about Clay Shirky’s cognitive surplus concept by Heresiarch (appended to a Making Light post, via FastForwardBlog, via Harold Jarche*), we read:
… 1) Shirky’s claim isn’t that everyone will suddenly devote every leisure hour to writing a novel/inventing cold fusion–only that, all of a sudden, it will be much easier to do so. People might still only choose to use 1% more of their leisure time in a productive fashion, but that’s still 1% improvement, and small percentages add up to a lot of productivity when you’re talking millions of people.
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“This book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Much of the practical, on-demand learning that people absorb during their careers comes from individuals who’ve developed mentoring relationships with us. They offer advice, they have useful contacts that they share access to, they help us with our decision-making process when we have tough choices to make.
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New ideas for learning professionals and curious people …
eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Some trends in personalized adaptive learning.
eLearning Technology: Thinking about social conference tool use and the low rate of participation for any collaborative software tool.
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We were recently able to talk with both Elliott Masie and Dr. Conrad Gottfredson about informal learning, multichannel publishing and performance support for the Xyleme podcast series.
Challenge and Need
Gottfredson said that it was the job of learning professionals to support learners throughout their journey, and has identified five key moments of need where they require support. He started by listing the two traditional points of need; when learning new information and when building on past learning. He then added three additional stages where learners often need on-demand information and assistance; applying and remembering what they’ve learned, troubleshooting and resolving problems, and when facing change.
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Learning and elearning luminaries on the subject of your edification …
Eliot Masie’s Learning TRENDS: Masters and Doctoral candidates are encouraged to apply for a research sabbatical or learning fellowship at the MASIE center starting this summer.
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It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about hobbies, liberal arts and knowledge of current events as luxuries, but our minds work better when our learning experiences are broad rather than narrow. Few people would directly argue that creativity be left behind in childhood, but many of the interesting experiences that promote cognitive adaptability have been left out of the workplace, and increasingly out of public schools.
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What are the edubloggers talking about today, I wonder …
Janet Clarey: Being a workplace ethnographer, systematically gathering information about how people interact with their environment with fresh eyes, can generate new insights into the needs of learners.
Jay Deragon: Looking towards the next step in the relationship economy, some musings on what the new generation of social networking would look like.
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“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” - The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We’re coming to the end of another economic bubble, this time in the financial sector. The folks who underwrite all our commercial activity got infected with the madness of crowds and tried to have themselves a post-fact economy. Didn’t work out so well. Home prices and consumer confidence reflect the reality, the post-post-fact economy, the hard truths that are reflected in economic forecasts and consumer billing statements everywhere.
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Your window into the learning and elearning blogs …
eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Thoughts on how social networks benefit learning and a range of cognitive skills.
eClippings: Teaching through stories can make for a memorable, effective and engaging learning experience.
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