CCReflect

Metacognition is defined as "cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing." 'It can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving.'

makes use of meditation begins from "psychological and ethical profile of a representative sample of" the organization

The tools are these: 1) finding the right question; 2) enhancing observation; 3) using analogies; 4) juggling induction and deduction; 5) changing your point of view; 6) broadening the perspective; 7) dissecting the problem; 8) leveraging serendipity and reversal; 9) reorganization and combination of ideas; 10) getting the most out of groups; and 11) breaking out of habitual expectations and frames.

touchstone for design/review of personal & professional development programs? http://www.couragerenewal.org/images/stories/pdfs/SummaryReportCOTEval_Jan08.pdf

evidence of a general collective intelligence factor that explains a group's performance on a wide variety of tasks. This "c factor" is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.

"[H]ow can race simultaneously be an irrelevance and an obsession? Unsurprisingly, [colorblindness is] rapidly cured in neighborhood selection, school choice and intimate relations..."

HSD tools help you cope with those patterns when: Resources are tight and demand is high Your old tools and techniques fall short Players are many, diverse, or constantly changing Culture and/or organizational habits are obsolete Too much or too little control makes people crazy There are so many moving parts you don't know where to start

an example of the importance of considering alternative hypotheses (and of connecting with people who raise them)

"Supposedly upgraded to take into consideration new ways of learning using digital tools, the revised model remains firmly rooted in the old behaviourist paradigm, and is just as reliant on the production of observable (and therefore) measurable behaviour as the original model."

A journal that resonates with the themes of CCRP

Building strength through positivity (See other webpages for courses, network, etc.)

"If we follow a path of leveraging technology to create new forms of networked learning, I think they are much more likely to end up as Friedman-inspired marketplaces than Dewey-inspired learning webs."

1. make time & space 2. forum for reflection on topic at hand 3. challenge assumptions at play 4. self-disclosure 5. analysis of moral implications of action

Agile Learning as part of a Self-Organised Learning Wiki

This organization based in Arlington, MA, has launched a National Institute for Student-Centered Education.

You can edit this (but would you want to get involved?)

see section on "dunbar's number and beyond" "More than 60 per cent of our social time is devoted to our five closest friends, with decreasing amounts given over to those in the layers beyond"

please post to http://groups.diigo.com/group/ccreflect from now on & refer back to http://groups.diigo.com/group/cctnetwork for posts before 14 April '12