On paving informal paths, see
resources on social and informal learning at Jane Hart’s Social Learning Centre:
http://sociallearningcentre.co.uk/
On curation, see Beth Kanter’s blog post “Content Curation 101”: http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/
On the Cheesecake Factory’s video café: http://www.bersin.com/News/Details.aspx?id=14676
On communities, see Katja Pastoors’s
comparison of types of communities of practice as well as the dynamics of
top-down v. bottom-up communities of practice: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1585429
For a study on
understanding the workings of a successful community of practice, see Bozarth,
J. “The Usefulness of Wenger’s Framework in Understanding an Existing Community
of Practice”: http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/bitstream/1840.16/4978/1/etd.pdf
Martin Burrett on 02 Feb 18"For the first time, scientists have identified the brain pathway that links a positive attitude toward maths to achievement in the subject. In a study of elementary school students, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that having a positive attitude about maths was connected to the better function of the hippocampus, an important memory centre in the brain, during the performance of arithmetic problems. The findings will be published online Jan. 24 in Psychological Science."
