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Paul Beaufait

Getting started with your blog | Edublogs Help and Support - 0 views

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Edublogs help support

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    Fresh help for Edubloggers
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    Page currently under construction, 2009.08.06
Benjamin Jörissen

rre : Message: [RRE]The Social Life of Information - 0 views

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networksofpractice

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  • 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.
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      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.
Holly Dilatush

Recommended Link from Russel Tarr at www.activehistory.co.uk - 0 views

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professionaldevelopment tutorials technologyresources

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    check this out! Thanks to TomWhitby (Twitter)
Barbara Moose

Seven skills students desperately need - 0 views

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21st_Century_Skills 21st century skills SETDA

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    At an education forum hosted by SETDA, keynote speaker Tony Wagner explained why teaching to the test is a mistake--and he listed seven 'survival skills' every student should have before graduating.
Kathleen N

Aviary's Talon: An Awesome Firefox Plug-in For Easy Image Editing - 0 views

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screenshots editor Firefox

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    Aviary, the company behind a suite of collaborative web-based image editing software, has released a Firefox plug-in that's a must-have. Create an account at Aviary, download the plug-in called Talon, and within minutes you'll be joyfully clipping full and partial screenshots into the very full-featured Aviary web editor. It's so easy, but at the same time so full-featured, that's a real pleasure to use.
Mandarin School

51wince非官方Blog-51wince非官方Blog-打造专业的私人WinCE知识会所 - 0 views

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51wince非官方blog

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    ,51wince非官方Blog - 51wince非官方Blog-打造专业的私人WinCE知识会所
Paul Beaufait

Action! Get the Cameras Rolling with Digital Storytelling - 0 views

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storytelling technology literacy digital education

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    Thanks to Carla A. for pointing out this rich resource collection!
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    Making Teachers Nerdy Blog post sharing "resources to help you get started In exploring what digital storytelling is, what web 2.0 tools are available to use, blogs from other Ed-tech folks who are brilliant in digital storytelling, and few ideas to spark your imagination"
Noelle Kreider

Online Textbooks - CK-12.org - 0 views

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textbooks opensource

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    Currently providing open-content physics, biology, and math online texts
Gladys Baya

BackupMyTweets Home: Backup Your Twitter Account - 0 views

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twitter bac backup web2.0 socialmedia BobRankin tips

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    Bob Rankin tips us: "It allows you to back up all of your tweets, which is a huge advantage since Twitter does not store more than 3200 tweets at a time." And it¡s free!
Melissa Smith

Category: iMovie - 0 views

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iMovie Macintosh tutorials

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    articles about tips regarding macintosh products
Kathleen N

Transform | Globalthinkers.net - 0 views

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globalthinkers authoring interactive education garystager

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    Transform is an easy to use authoring tool that helps K-12 educators create and share dynamic, interactive educational content that is relevant to their curriculum and exciting for their students.
Paul Beaufait

Free Screenshots for Bloggers. ~ Tips for Bloggers - 0 views

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bloggers screenshots

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    Instructions for taking a screenshot in Windows
Kathleen N

ctstudentfilms.org Video - 0 views

ctstudentfilms.org/index.php

phpMotion films socialmedia school

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    Site for Connecticut Schools to share videos in a YouTube platform using PHPMotion
Kathleen N

RailsBridge : Teaching Kids Project : Home - 0 views

teachingkids.railsbridge.org

railsbridge programming computerscience technology

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    programming lessons using Rails and Shoes (no kidding!)
Paul Beaufait

Online Communities of Practice [for ELT] - 0 views

learningwithcomputers07.pbworks.com/Communities-of-Practice

learningwithcomputers communities collab-bk-collaboration collaborat*

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    This thought-provoking slide show defines communities of practice (CoPs), compares F2F and online CoPs, includes a quotation that seems to misconstrue cooperation as collaboration (slide 12), and provides illustrations of online CoPs in various venues.
  • Paul Beaufait on 31 Jul 09
     
    Thanks to Gladys for sharing this via the learningwithcomputers07 wiki: http://learningwithcomputers07.pbworks.com/Communities-of-Practice
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