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The MOOC, or connectivist, course model strives to do for the teaching and learning process what MIT did for course conten

Learners need some sense of what they are choosing to do, a sense of eventedness.5

course serves an important role as an information and discussion center

Design challenge: Design a 21st century learning space in a school, starting from one (or more) of three traditional school spaces: classroom, media/technology lab, or library. What are key phrases, features, characteristics of 21st century learning that you will incorporate into your design? What mindset will be manifested in the space? What will it look like?

Let's start talking about how we can begin to deliver more personalized, relevant learning to kids right now. Let's rethink our definitions of teacher and classroom and school, in some profound, albeit, radical ways. Let's deeply consider the affordances that technologies bring to the learning equation, despite being made decidedly uncomfortable by those potentials in some big ways.

When will we start incorporating the use of social media learning channels into the broader definition of what it means to be an education professional? When will we renorm the education profession to include the expectation that teachers and administrators will use these tools to advance their own practice?  When will we view educators that opt out of the use of social media for professional learning as an aberration rather than the norm?