EDUC 300

1. Context as a decentered center. "For learning design in a peer-to-peer context, understanding the learner's self-concept -- in particular, whether they see themselves as self-directed or not -- may be less important than understanding the concept of 'shared context in motion'." (See "Paragogy and basho", below.) 2. Meta-learning as a font of knowledge. "We all have a lot to learn about learning." 3. Peers are equals, but different. "The learner mustn't seek only to confirm what they already know, and must therefor confront and make sense of difference as part of the learning experience." 4. Learning is distributed and nonlinear. "Side-tracking is OK, but dissipation isn't likely to work. Part of paragogy is learning how to find one's way around a given social field." 5. Realize the dream, then wake up! "Paragogy is the art of fulfilling motivations when this is possible, and then going on to the next thing."

shared context in motion.

Knowledge creation in schools is the creation of knowledge by students for their own use. [

a learning experience as a series of activities, not a progression of content.  

content is accessed on the basis of the activities, not the other way around. Also, the activities produce products, and also reflections.

make your thinking visible

Bruner's model of the spiral curriculum is an element of educational philosophy suggesting that students . should continually return to basic ideas as new subjects and concepts are added over the course of a curriculum.

The spiral curriculum theory revolves around the understanding that human cognition evolved in a step-by-step process of learning, which relied on environmental interaction and experience to form intuition and knowledge. In simpler terms, one learns best through the repeated experience of a concept.

Remember that it is NOT about the tools we use with our students, but the skills we are exposing them to and want them to get proficient in.

A social bookmarking site provides a way for students or teachers to save all of their links in one place on the Internet. These links are saved with one or more tags to help find the site in the future.  

According to Netcraft, there are more than 100 million Web sites on the Internet. Between 3 to 4 million new Web sites are added every month. How do educators keep this information organized? How do educators and students plod through this morass and separate the good from the bad and the ugly? Social bookmarking provides one way for users to get control of this information.