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MakeUseOf.com's guide to free group calling and conference apps

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

Twitter Tools: twibes (twitter groups)

virtual worlds researchers group in Second Life

Second Life: Shakespeare Company

a dead-simple group blogging tool - possibly useful in developing communities around particular projects

Distance Learning Users Group for K-12

Distance Learning Users Group for K-12

About Digital Learning Now! (Jeb Bush's thing) Digital Learning Now! is a national campaign to advance policies that will create a high quality digital learning environment to better prepare students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and careers. Digital Learning Now! is building support for the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning, which provides a roadmap for reform for lawmakers and policymakers to integrate digital learning into education. Establishing the Roadmap for Reform The Digital Learning Council was convened in 2010 to define the policies that will integrate current and future technological innovations into public education. The Digital Learning Council united a diverse group of more than 100 leaders from education, government, philanthropy, business, technology, and think tanks to develop the roadmap of reform for local, state and federal lawmakers and policymakers. Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida 1999 - 2007, and Bob Wise, former Governor of West Virginia 2001 - 2005, serve as co-chairmen. The Digital Learning Council covered a wide range of topics, including: student eligibility for digital learning, access to high quality digital content and instruction, customization and personalization of education such as blended learning, funding models, assessments and accountability. The 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning was released at the 2010 Excellence in Action National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, D.C.

As a research community agenda we might look to blend the conceptual power of organizational routines to shape group activities with the influence of a co-constructed and blended world around us. This is consistent with the blending, remixing, "Exceptionally designed to facilitate leading-edge research, the BRI draws businesses and researchers from around the world who leverage the facility for Qualitative Research: Focus Group and In-depth Interviews Experimental and Survey Research Consumer Behavior Studies Regional, National, and International Collaboration Videoconferences and Seminars Corporate Workshops

The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (Trent Batson's eportfolios group)

A diversity in education project by Spokane area digital youth project TinCan - a group who I'm looking to collaborate with through CATE when i make the jump to eastern Washington in 2010.

Spruz: an alternative to Ning networks - create social networking groups with enabled collaboration and a variety of display features.

Math 2.0 Interest Group: holds weekly events - sharing resources, collaborate on curriculum projects, writing grants, etc.

Zotero's new (2009) group citation tools

check out the list of news articles related to Open Education - the trend being pushed by a sinking economy and a Flat World. Tom Layton! YB Group! National Center!

check out the list of news articles related to Open Education - the trend being pushed by a sinking economy and a Flat World.

edublog2008 award (best Group blog)

assessment: evaluating learner experiences of e-learning

assessment: evaluating learner experiences of e-learning