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Nils Peterson

Stolen Knowledge - 3 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • This is certainly not a trivial challenge-particularly for schools. The workplace, where our work has been concentrated, is perhaps the easiest place to design because, despite the inevitable contradictions and conflict, it is rich with inherently authentic practice-with a social periphery that, as Orr's (1990) or Shaiken's (1990) work shows, can even supersede attempts to impoverish understanding. Consequently, people often learn, complex work skills despite didactic practices that are deliberately designed to deskill. Workplace designers (and managers) should be developing technology to honor that learning ability, not to circumvent it.
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      Nils Peterson on 27 Oct 09
       
      Another John Seely Brown piece on Legitimate Peripheral Participation with interesting implications for our needs of professional development as OAI evolves. It also leads me back to Lave and Wenger so that I stop crediting JSB with the term.
S Spaeth

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 1 views

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John Seely Brown Learning 2.0 Educause

shared by S Spaeth on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • More than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. There are over 30 million people today qualified to enter a university who have no place to go. During the next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week.
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      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      quote from Sir John Daniel, 1996. The decade he speaks of has past
  • Open source communities have developed a well-established path by which newcomers can “learn the ropes” and become trusted members of the community through a process of legitimate peripheral participation.
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      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      He describes an apprentice model, but we might also think about peripheral participation in terms of giving feedback using an educative rubric.
  • Lectures from model teachers are recorded on video and are then physically distributed via DVD to schools that typically lack well-trained instructors (as well as Internet connections). While the lectures are being played on a monitor (which is often powered by a battery, since many participating schools also lack reliable electricity), a “mediator,” who could be a local teacher or simply a bright student, periodically pauses the video and encourages engagement among the students by asking questions or initiating discussions about the material they are watching.
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  • The Faulkes Telescope Project and the Decameron Web are just two of scores of research and scholarly portals that provide access to both educational resources and a community of experts in a given domain. The web offers innumerable opportunities for students to find and join niche communities where they can benefit from the opportunities for distributed cognitive apprenticeship. Finding and joining a community that ignites a student’s passion can set the stage for the student to acquire both deep knowledge about a subject (“learning about”) and the ability to participate in the practice of a field through productive inquiry and peer-based learning (“learning to be”). These communities are harbingers of the emergence of a new form of technology-enhanced learning—Learning 2.0—which goes beyond providing free access to traditional course materials and educational tools and creates a participatory architecture for supporting communities of learners.
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      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      Kramer's Plant Biotech group could be one of these. It needs tasks that permit legitimate peripheral participation. One of those could be peer assessment. Another could be social bookmarking. I now see it needs not just an _open_ platform, but an _extensible_ one. Here is where the hub and spoke model may play in.
    • S Spaeth
      S Spaeth on 06 Oct 09
       
      I infer that you are referring to this research group. http://www.officeofresearch.wsu.edu/missions/health/kramer.html I am curious to learn why you selected this lab as an example.
  • open participatory learning ecosystems
Theron DesRosier

John Seely Brown: Speaking - 0 views

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JohnSeelyBrown web2.0 education learning research innovation

shared by Theron DesRosier on 16 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 16 Mar 09
     
    This is a collection of JSB speaches.
Gary Brown

John Seely Brown on Tinkering « EDITing in the Dark - 0 views

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learning play technology tinker collaborate

shared by Gary Brown on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Gary Brown on 03 Apr 09
     
    The importance of play, construction, collaboration, ill-structured knowledge, especially in the global era.
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