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http://www.earthwatch.org/ - 14 views

www.earthwatch.org science environment volunteering
shared by jodi tompkins on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • jodi tompkins on 13 Mar 10
     
    Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that brings science to life for people concerned about the Earth's future. Founded in 1971, Earthwatch supports scientific field research by offering volunteers the opportunity to join research teams around the world.
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rre : Message: [RRE]The Social Life of Information - 0 views

tech.groups.yahoo.com/...1235 networksofpractice
shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 04 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The importance of people as creators and carriers of knowledge is forcing organizations to realize that knowledge lies less in its databases than in its people.
  • Learning to be requires more than just information. It requires the ability to engage in the practice in question. Indeed, Bruner's distinction highlights another, made by the philosopher Gilbert Ryle. He distinguishes "know that" from "know how".
  • This claim of Polanyi's resembles Ryle's argument that "know that" doesn't produce "know how," and Bruner's that learning about doesn't, on its own, allow you to learn to be. Information, all these arguments suggest, is on its own not enough to produce actionable knowledge. Practice too is required.
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  • Despite the tendency to shut ourselves away and sit in Rodinesque isolation when we have to learn, learning is a remarkably social process. Social groups provide the resources for their members to learn.
  • Learning and Identity Shape One Another
  • Bruner, with his idea of learning to be, and Lave and Wenger, in their discussion of communities of practice, both stress how learning needs to be understood in relation to the development of human identity.
  • In learning to be, in becoming a member of a community of practice, an individual is developing a social identity.
  • So, even when people are learning about, in Bruner's terms, the identity they are developing determines what they pay attention to and what they learn. What people learn about, then, is always refracted through who they are and what they are learning to be.
  • In either case, the result, as the anthropologist Gregory Bateson puts it neatly, is "a difference that makes a difference". 29 The importance of disturbance or change makes it almost inevitable that we focus on these.
  • So to understand the whole interaction, it is as important to ask how the lake is formed as to ask how the pebble got there. It's this formation rather than information that we want to draw attention to, though the development is almost imperceptible and the forces invisible in comparison to the drama and immediacy of the pebble. It's not, to repeat once more, the information that creates that background. The background has to be in place for the information to register.
  • The forces that shape the background are, rather, the tectonic social forces, always at work, within which and against which individuals configure their identity. These create not only grounds for reception, but grounds for interpretation, judgment, and understanding.
    • Benjamin Jörissen
      Benjamin Jörissen on 04 Jun 09
       
      kulturelle Muster, die qua Sozialisation erworben werden, und die in Bildungsprozessen verändert werden.
  • A Brief Note on the "Social"
  • It took Karl Marx to point out, however, that Crusoe is not a universal. On his island (and in Defoe's mind), he is deeply rooted in the society from which he came
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • We need not watch long before we can explain it: he is playing at being a waiter in a cafe . . . . [T]he waiter plays with his condition in order to realize it
  • So while people do indeed learn alone, even when they are not stranded on desert islands or in small cafes, they are nonetheless always enmeshed in society, which saturates our environment, however much we might wish to escape it at times.
  • For the same reason, however, members of these networks are to some degree divided or separated from people with different practices. It is not the different information they have that divides them.
  • Rather, it is their different attitudes or dispositions toward that information -- attitudes and dispositions shaped by practice and identity -- that divide. Consequently, despite much in common, physicians are different from nurses, accountants from financial planners.
  • two types of work-related networks
  • First, there are the networks that link people to others whom they may never get to know but who work on similar practices. We call these "networks of practice"
  • Second, there are the more tight-knit groups formed, again through practice, by people working together on the same or similar tasks. These are what, following Lave and Wenger, we call "communities of practice".
  • Networks of Practice
  • The 25,000 reps working for Xerox make up, in theory, such a network.
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E-Learning Journeys: Collaboration: Concept, Power and Magic - 0 views

123elearning.blogspot.com/...n-concept-power-and-magic.html collaboration education learners teachers
shared by Paul Beaufait on 29 May 09 - Cached
  • It is through connections and communications using Web 2.0 and other tools that collaboration opportunities can emerge.
  • If you are practicing collaboration you have the power to change the world, one classroom at a time. The power of learning in a social and extended context, yet in a safe and supportive environment is achievable.
  • The ability to connect, communicate and collaborate with educators and students in all parts of the world using common online tools has changed the way I teach in the classroom, as well as changed the way I work as an administrator.
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  • The magic of collaboration comes from seeing students and teachers find their own voice and take charge of their own learning. It comes from being given choices and ownership and empowerment of their learning path.
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 May 09
     
    wonderful post about journeys "beyond 'wow!'"
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The Major Academic Troubles Of The Students Of Luton - 1 views

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shared by emilymoore758618 on 03 Aug 20 - No Cached
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    Luton is one of the United Kingdom's major educational hubs. The city's highly competitive academic environment poses several significant problems to its students. Consequentially, some of England's best assignment writers operate in Luton and offer their assistance to the beleaguered pupils of the city. Read this article to know more details.
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Happiness Ville Foundation - 0 views

www.happinessville.org NGO in Ahmedabad India Donate Food Cloths
shared by digitalorainfo on 22 May 20 - No Cached
  • digitalorainfo on 22 May 20
     
    We, a young, dynamic and public-spirited team of activists at Happiness Ville, are constantly brainstorming ideas and ways to bring about the change we always talk about and hardly put into action. Our aim is to eradicate the 'mal' out of malnutrition, 'ill' out of the illiteracy, 'in' out of the injustice and the 'issues' out of the environment.
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Selenium Training in Gurgaon | Automation Software Testing Training - 0 views

www.gyansetu.in/...selenium-training-in-gurgaon Selenium Software Course Training education
shared by sana21 on 04 Oct 21 - No Cached
  • sana21 on 04 Oct 21
     
    Gyansetu is one of the most credible Software Testing training institutes in Gurgaon offering hands on Practical knowledge and full job assistance with basic as well as advanced level Software Testing training courses. At Gyansetu well-equipped Software Testing training center in Gurgaon aspirants learn the skills to become a software tester . Excel in Automation Test Industry Understand types of Testing catering by Selenium Configure JAVA and its Environment Learn All Components require to drive the Test Automation using Selenium Create Automation Test Scripts using Selenium WebDriver Implementation of TestNG framework in Selenium WebDriver Importance of Page Object Model and its purpose Parametrization Automation frameworks like Data-driven, Keyword-driven, and Hybrid Understand Functionalities of Third Party Tools such as Jenkins, Sikuli, & AutoIT Introduction of Web Service/ API Testing
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