AULA 2.0

When I survey the landscape of educational tools, I come to the following conclusion: Elgg is the most important tool, currently available, in shaping the future of learning.

It is essentially a PLE

a significant portion of the workforce has not been able to develop the skills to learn for themselves.

The message from many workplaces continues to be that good employees wait for their supervisor to tell them what to do.

However, when we move away from a “design it first, then build it” mindset, we need to engage everyone in critical and systems thinking. Workers in agile workplaces must be passionate, adaptive, innovative, and collaborative. The way to begin is to become autonomous.

moving towards a more collaborative approach to learning and working in an organisation- and one which supports the big picture of "learning", rather than the tiny, 20% of learning, that takes place in classrooms or online courses.

Although many L&D professionals understand the reality of today's workplace and the need to take a more 21st century approach to "learning" than simply creating courses and workshops and using a command and control system to manage learners, what is stopping them is knowing HOW to move forward.

the transition path to a post-LMS future,

La selección de aprendizajes básicos es una de las decisiones más importantes que cualquier sociedad debe adoptar para garantizar su propia continuidad.

Se trata, pues, de utilizar un nuevo concepto para seguir definiendo un determinado perfil de personada educada.

la dificultad para que las competencias básicas puedan transformarse en un factor de mejora no reside en la utilización del término competencia sino en el concepto que finalmente se vincule a ese término.

presentation about how Twitter and wikis can be used by teachers to create their own personal learning network

To help teachers in this process, Gina has set up a wiki Twitter4Teachers which contains pages of useful contacts divided up according to subject and area of interest.

I suggest you use Twitter Search to create RSS feeds for all those people who you are particularly interested in (your core group)and then subscribe to them in Google Reader so you can read their messages all in one place when you have the time. To do this, go to Twitter Search and put in the username of someone you want to follow then click on Search to generate the latest results. Click on the link Feed for this query on the right hand side of the page and copy the feed in the address bar which should look like the example below with the name of the person you want to track replaced by the word username: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=username

a collection of 140-character pearls of wisdom from educators using the social networking service, Twitter.

The ability to spot existing or emerging patterns is one of the most (if not the most) critical skills in intelligent decision making, though we’re mostly unaware that we do it all the time

Combining past experience, intuition, and common sense, the ability to recognize patterns gives us the ability to predict what will happen next with some degree of accuracy. The better able we are to predict what will happen, the more intelligent we become. So, you might say that the purpose of intelligence is prediction.

Let’s look at an example

Not everyone would agree that multitasking is a healthy attribute of today’s students.

A Stanford University study released last year found that high-tech jugglers have problems paying attention, controlling their memory, or switching from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time.

In his book, Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn, Rosen suggests, among many other things, that teachers should begin to use cell phones as tools for mobile learning.