help with technology

journal athabasca

Written awhile ago, but some basics from a practical point of view about how to create community online

List of publications related to education and learning - and PD for teachers

professor's web page with mind map of learning concepts

Professional development for teachers in a CoP

to transform existing teacher education programs' course contexts into communities of learners that link the learning of preservice teachers with the learning of experienced teachers and teacher educators

"Smart people or smart contexts?"

I am interested in how and whether tacit knowledge can develop in a vCoP. This is a summary of Sternberg's view of intelligence, including practical intelligence, which is a version of tacit intelligence

For those PhD students who are trying to figure out how best to study - to understand and to remember - the research sets aside some common conceptions and offers some new ones. My favorite - which I am trying tonight - is to study the same material in different rooms. Hmmmm Where to study? bedroom?? (dangerous! I will sleep!)

The Future of LEarning - fifth generation distance learning

Good question, Joost. It really is a historical document. I am looking for frameworks for different ways that people understand learning theory related to online learning. Taylor's five generation framework was something I hadn't seen before - but since I marked this one, I found the breakdown in another document as well - so maybe it is more common than I thought and maybe it is a way of looking at the history that others are already familiar with. For me, it was a new way. I think it is a good idea to annotate these when we mark them and I will try to do that. Sometimes i am in a hurry and skip that step, but it would be more helpful (even to me!) if I did not

Bereiter's is the third model of networked learning that Hakkarainen et al compare in their book "Communities of Networked Expertise" along with Nonaka & Takeuchi and Engestrom

Dan Pink makes a case. The mismatch between what we know about motivation and what management does.

Youth culture and practice in relationship to the new media - how youth culture and practice is changing in the United States.. (Suggested by John Smith)