World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia - 0 views
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Her response blew me away. "I ask my readers," she said. I doubt anyone in the room could have guessed that answer. But if you look at the Clustrmap on Laura's blog, Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference, you'll see that Laura's readers -- each represented by a little red dot -- come from all over the world. She has a network of connections, people from almost every continent and country, who share their own stories of service or volunteer to assist Laura in her work. She's sharing and learning and collaborating in ways that were unheard of just a few years ago.
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Welcome to the Collaboration Age, where even the youngest among us are on the Web, tapping into what are without question some of the most transformative connecting technologies the world has ever seen.
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The Collaboration Age is about learning with a decidedly different group of "others," people whom we may not know and may never meet, but who share our passions and interests and are willing to invest in exploring them together. It's about being able to form safe, effective networks and communities around those explorations, trust and be trusted in the process, and contribute to the conversations and co-creations that grow from them. It's about working together to create our own curricula, texts, and classrooms built around deep inquiry into the defining questions of the group. It's about solving problems together and sharing the knowledge we've gained with wide audiences.
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Weblogg-ed » Clay Shirky Interview - 0 views
Clay Shirky Presentation on Internet Trends and Culture at TED Washington DC ... - 0 views
Quotes by Clay Shirky (page 1 of 1) - 10 views
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"Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring."
The Maker Movement and Your Child's 'Cognitive Surplus' - 5 views
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"What are your kids doing with all of their 'cognitive surplus'? Not sure? OK, let's take a step back. What is 'cognitive surplus'? 'Cognitive Surplus' is a term coined by author and professor at NYU's interactive telecommunications programme, Clay Shirky. Regarded as one of the leading thinkers on the Internet, technology and its impact on society, Clay introduced the concept in his fascinating and aptly titled book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age."
21st Century Learning: Planning for 21st Century Instruction - 0 views
Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age - 0 views
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Picture a bus. Your students are standing in the front; most teachers (maybe even you) are in the back, hanging on to the seat straps as the bus careens down the road under the guidance of kids who have never been taught to steer and who are figuring it out as they go.
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In short, for a host of reasons, we're failing to empower kids to use one of the most important technologies for learning that we've ever had. One of the biggest challenges educators face right now is figuring out how to help students create, navigate, and grow the powerful, individualized networks of learning that bloom on the Web and helping them do this effectively, ethically, and safely. The new literacy means being able to function in and leverage the potential of easy-to-create, collaborative, transparent online groups and networks, which represent a "tectonic shift" in the way we need to think about the world and our place in it (Shirky, 2008). This shift requires us to create engaged learners, not simply knowers, and to reconsider the roles of schools and educators.
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As the geeky father
Clay Shirky | Profile on TED.com - 0 views
Clay Shirky - 0 views
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