"Supporting professional judgement with evidence from the science of learning - connecting educators with summaries and sources of educational research"
"... a reduction of a complete picture of learning theories ... attempts to map and link key scientific disciplines, theorists, concepts and paradigms."
Curious: A rigorous curiosity underpins the most fruitful work scholars do.
Dynamic
a series of iterative experiments.
a resolution to the inquiry
Derivative
attentive and alive, responsive
Critical: We can’t be afraid to critique our own circumstances, our own context.
Cormier suggests rhizomatic education — constructing and negotiating community knowledge through a series of interdependent nodes — as a pedagogical solution within quickly changing fields of information. In other words, by connecting to each other, no matter our expertise or station, knowledge grows.
We may provide the content, but this is no different today than scattering LEGOs on a table: what happens next is not up to us
from a traditional model of schooling to one more compatible with the realities of the digital landscape. Experimentation, inquiry, and play are both the research tools we must use to create online and hybrid classrooms, and also the methodologies best employed within those classrooms.
Testing and canonical content are less vital to the new media landscape than interactivity, play, and relevant application.
that students “show up,” be curious, collaborate, and contribute.
The digital has reminded us that learning happens unexpectedly, and so should our approach to learning be unexpectant. We must return play to education, to pedagogy, and to all scholarly practice.
Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: This book was produced by graduate students in a course with Cathy N. Davidson. The text of the work is itself rigorous, but what we find most intensely rigorous is the way the reader is brought into the book’s ongoing creation through simultaneous publishing on communal platforms like Rap Genius, HASTAC, GitHub, and Google Docs.
The Web is a massive, shifting repository of human knowledge.
We should empower learners to engage this ecosystem and make the Web they want to use.
Mozilla developed the Web Literacy Map to help you do just that.
In "Design Challenges" learners select a problem, conduct research with users, prototype a solution, give and receive feedback, and iterate to produce a final project.
Feedback is the glue of the Web
Constructive Criticism
Feedback is the basis for open source culture
Giving constructive criticism (and receiving it) is something that takes practice. We adhere to “if you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all” because we don't believe that our opinions are necessary. We forget that criticism doesn't have to lead to complete redesign or reformulation.
delivering feedback
We also tend to spend time focusing on our own things, rather than looking at other people's ideas and thinking about making them better.
We ask for feedback and expect to get some, but we rarely give our feedback freely – we wait until our specific feedback is requested or until the work directly affects our own.
We all know how fantastic it is to get good, constructive feedback on something we're working on. What if we all took more time to give feedback like that to others? What would happen?
the Web is, by its nature, collaborative
the power of the open Web comes from our ability to share. In the learning experiences we design, when we create spaces to share our work with each other, we model the way the Web works. These complex social spaces encourage freedom of expression and honesty.
Connected learning seeks to tie together the respected historical body of research on how youth best learn with the opportunities made available through today's networked and digital media. Connected learning is real-world. It's social. It's hands-on. It's active. It's networked. It's personal. It's effective. Through a new vision of learning, it holds out the possibility for productive and broad-based educational change.
Connected learning combines personal interests, supportive relationships, and opportunities. I'm currently working with the guys from https://www.topwritersreview.com/reviews/gradesfixer/ and we've recently written an article about connected learning. Its environments link learning in school, home, and community because learners achieve best when their learning is reinforced and supported in multiple settings.