Professional Learning Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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professionalism is, "based on specialized knowledge and a focus on serving client needs"; whereas community is, "based on caring, support, and mutual responsibility within a group."
dgCommunities:Knowledge Economy - 0 views
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'Pod-ready: Podcasting for the developing world' Lead: 'Podcasts are taking off as a way that anyone, anywhere, can get their voice heard on the Internet. With access to information and communication technology (ICTs) in developing countries growing day by day, and recognition from decision makers that ICTs are a key component in development, podcasting could play a role in the new communication order.' The article cites examples of NGO's using podcasts to provide content for telecenters and to suggest that the approach is useful even in areas that don't have electricity, never mind the Internet.
Knowledge Bank Conference 2008 - 0 views
elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 2 views
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John Seely Brown presents an interesting notion that the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
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The central premise is that connections created with unusual nodes supports and intensifies existing large effort activities.
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Behaviorism, 4cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning 1theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn. 1Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments. Vaill emphasizes that "learning must be a way of being - an ongoing set of attitudes and actions by individuals and groups that they employ to try to keep abreast o the surprising, novel, messy, obtrusive, recurring events…" (1996, p.42).
Parents to be shown how to protect children online | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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Her report, treading a delicate line between tighter regulation and better coordinated parental education, will argue that industry and government must do more to provide information to parents on how to set timers on computers, video games and console games. She will propose:
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She will also concede that academic research on the impact of the net on children and their lifestyles is inadequate.
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· New codes of practice to regulate social networking sites, such as Bebo and Facebook, including clear standards on privacy and harmful content;· A gold standard for the use of console games, including clear set-up guidance for parents on issues such as pin codes and locks;· Better information for parents on how to block children accessing some websites. Byron has been struck that the technology exists to impose timers and filters, but there has been little take-up, knowledge or development of the technology;
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SoapBox: Sue Waters and friends Twitter : The Knowledge Tree - 0 views
LETSI Blog - Who Needs Teachers? - 1 views
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Who Needs Teachers? The elearning zeitgeist is that teaching is passé: Google opens the door to all the world’s knowledge. The “sweet-spot” in corporate training, we are told, is rapid conversion of PowerPoints and SME-created podcasts. E-textbook and enterprise software publishers insist that what students need is better access to digital resources.
Infosearcher: Learning in the Web 2.0 World - 1 views
L'Entreprise 2.0 pour préparer la reprise (part II) - Whitepaper à télécharger - 0 views
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Dans un monde des affaires en perpétuelle mutation, la connaissance devient un capital essentiel pour toute organisation. Leur survie et croissance passe par la mise en place de solutions optimisant la collaboration et la gestion des connaissances. Forts de ce constat, nous avons récemment travaillé à l'écriture de notre premier livre blanc (disponible en anglais uniquement). Il se veut être une analyse des avantages liés à l'introduction d'outils de l'Entreprise 2.0, et positionne la gestion collaborative des connaissances comme une solution stable et durable, plus particulièrement en ces périodes de tumulte économique.
New test measures students' digital literacy - 21 views
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Marshall University will use the certification in two different ways. A sampling of freshman will take iCritical Thinking as a part of their first-year seminar as a way to benchmark skills and inform instructors about the topics that need to be covered.
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Brooks plans to use the certification at the end of her Instructional Technology of Libraries class to measure how well students learned the advanced digital literacy skills taught during the class.
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reveals whether or not a person is able to combine technical skills with experiences and knowledge.
Vanderbilt Center for Teaching: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) - 8 views
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In an effort to define the scholarship performed by professors in academia as more than just "teaching versus research," Ernest L. Boyer, in his influential book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (Carnegie Foundation, 1990), concluded that "the work of the professoriate might be thought of as having four separate, yet overlapping, functions.
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Randy Bass, director of the Visible Knowledge Project (VKP), described the SoTL projects initiated by the participants in VKP. Their central questions were "How did they know that their students were learning?" and "Did the students' learning promise to last?" He writes, "By asking these questions, many faculty discovered early on that what most interested—or eluded—them about their student's learning could not be answered simply by looking at regularly assigned course work."
Text Unto Others... As You Would Have Them Text Unto You -- THE Journal - 0 views
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Many educators and academic experts argue that digital citizenship is not something school districts should be handling alone, that these are lessons that should begin at home, and that parents should be playing an equal role in developing their children into good digital citizens.
Comprehensive Help and Support for Computer Beginners - 1 views
I am a beginner when it comes to computer stuff. I really had a difficulty of mastering a digital machine like computers partly because there is no one who can teach me. I am really eager to know h...
Teaching styles in HE: to inform or enlighten? | Higher Education Network | Guardian Pr... - 11 views
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When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom.
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learning communities: places where people came together to learn lessons that were as much about how to live as they were about how to perform a task?
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highly resistant to new forms of scientific and technological knowledge
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