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My So-Called Second Life: Are You Your Avatar? | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific Ame... - 1 views

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avatar virtual world virtual reality anthology

shared by Gideon Burton on 06 Sep 12 - No Cached

Gideon Burton on 06 Sep 12

An account of a science writer broadcasting a podcast from Second Life. Includes brief and helpful background on the history of avatars and their social function and best practices. A good intro to avatars.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An account of a science writer broadcasting a podcast from Second Life. Includes brief and helpful background on the history of avatars and their social function and best practices. A good intro to avatars.</div>

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Pong (1972, Atari) - YouTube - 1 views

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video game history

shared by Gideon Burton on 12 Sep 12 - No Cached

Gideon Burton on 12 Sep 12

Pong was both a console game for the home Atari system, as well as an arcade, stand-alone machine.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Pong was both a console game for the home Atari system, as well as an arcade, stand-alone machine.</div>

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Connectivism - 1 views

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Connectivism learning theory education George Siemens

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These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
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In many fields the life of knowledge is now measured in months and years.
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The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is doubling every 18 months according to the American Society of Training and Documentation (ASTD). To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.
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Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking
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learning as a lasting changed state (emotional, mental, physiological (i.e. skills)) brought about as a result of experiences and interactions with content or other people.
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Objectivism (similar to behaviorism) states that reality is external and is objective, and knowledge is gained through experiences. Pragmatism (similar to cognitivism) states that reality is interpreted, and knowledge is negotiated through experience and thinking. Interpretivism (similar to constructivism) states that reality is internal, and knowledge is constructed.
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Behaviorism states that learning is largely unknowable, that is, we can’t possibly understand what goes on inside a person (the “black box theory”)
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Cognitivism often takes a computer information processing model. Learning is viewed as a process of inputs, managed in short term memory, and coded for long-term recall.
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Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences
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Constructivism assumes that learners are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. Instead, learners are actively attempting to create meaning. Learners often select and pursue their own learning. Constructivist principles acknowledge that real-life learning is messy and complex.
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learning that occurs outside of people
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The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
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In today’s environment, action is often needed without personal learning – that is, we need to act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge.
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An entirely new approach is needed.
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How can we continue to stay current in a rapidly evolving information ecology?
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We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections.
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Unlike constructivism, which states that learners attempt to foster understanding by meaning making tasks, chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden
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The capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby create useful information patterns, is required to learn in our knowledge economy.
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A network can simply be defined as connections between entities.
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Nodes that successfully acquire greater profile will be more successful at acquiring additional connections
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Finding a new job, as an example, often occurs through weak ties. This principle has great merit in the notion of serendipity, innovation, and creativity. Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
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Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
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Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
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Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
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The starting point of connectivism is the individual.
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This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
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the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
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example of a Maricopa County Community College system project that links senior citizens with elementary school students in a mentor program. The children “listen to these “grandparents” better than they do their own parents, the mentoring really helps the teachers…the small efforts of the many- the seniors – complement the large efforts of the few – the teachers.” (2002). This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
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Implications
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The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application.
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acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
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Greg Williams on 12 Sep 12

"Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking." . . . or so this fellow argues in a pretty detailed paper

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking." . . . or so this fellow argues in a pretty detailed paper</div>

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Content Curation World - 1 views

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curation content

shared by Gideon Burton on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached

Gideon Burton on 13 Sep 12

An excellent aggregation of content related to curation (recommended by Ellis Dyck)

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How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers i... - 1 views

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amateur pro-am photography creative commons

shared by Gideon Burton on 14 Sep 12 - No Cached

Gideon Burton on 14 Sep 12

An example of someone succeeding at photography by seeking only reputation, not money, by publishing his work as Creative Commons-licensed.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An example of someone succeeding at photography by seeking only reputation, not money, by publishing his work as Creative Commons-licensed.</div>

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Hackasaurus - 2 views

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remix tool service

shared by Gideon Burton on 15 Sep 12 - No Cached

Gideon Burton on 15 Sep 12

A remix tool for education

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The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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internet history anthology

shared by Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached

it’s impossible to overstate the importance of peer production to the modern digital world.
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What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age.
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Peer networks laid the foundation for the scientific revolution during the Enlightenment, via the formal and informal societies and coffeehouse gatherings where new research was shared. The digital revolution has made it clear that peer networks can work wonders in the modern age.
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We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will. But as a society we lack master narratives of creative collaboration.
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what the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate
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iGoogle - 0 views

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consume portal igoogle homepage rss widgets email

shared by Gideon Burton on 15 Sep 10 - Cached

Gideon Burton on 15 Sep 10

Create a custom home page with RSS feeds and widgets, or even your Gmail.

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OER Commons - 0 views

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OER opencontent education learning

shared by Gideon Burton on 16 Sep 10 - Cached

Gideon Burton on 16 Sep 10

A very good aggregator of open educational content.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A very good aggregator of open educational content.</div>

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Gideon Burton on 16 Sep 10

This is particularly useful for diversifying the kinds of content that you search for on a given topic

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