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Provides the rational for reimagining education for young people. I believe that most of these principles apply to adults in the workforce, too. Premise for WLstudio.

Killer infograph on Connected (equitable, social, and participatory) Learning from Connected Learning Principles, Connected Learning.

Absolutely fabulous video (6 minutes) on Connected Learning and how we must change the outcomes based focus of education to awaken the curiosity of each learner and engage with them in learning how to learn given the distribution of resources, ideas, experts, etc. while preserving the learners' autonomy, access to diversity, openness to others for learning, interactivity with similar and diverse co-learners, etc. Film by Nic Askew at Soulbiographies.com interviewing McArthur Foundation person and two professors of education

Beautiful schematic on value creation--all of the activities and trust building and connection building that occurs before a collaboration effort is noticed, Oscar Berg, February 14, 2012

Premise(?) for WL Learning Studio from Harold Harche's blog, February 23, 2012 Excerpts: "Those specialized departments of the 20th century need to engage in social learning, by modelling behaviour and continuously developing next practices to adapt to changing conditions. This is the challenge to remain relevant in the 21st century workplace. Learn or die." "This isn't the Information Age, it's the Learning Age; and the quicker people get their heads around that, the better - Prof Stephen Heppell" "It boils down to the fact that in the network era, value is derived from workforce collaboration, where you are either contributing to the network, or you are no longer required."

Blog post by Stephen Downes exploring what a MOOC does and does not do--it does not replicate or build on past failed educational pathways where a person--adult or child--is not motivated enough to invest time in his/her own learning path. He mentions that online gaming is the best pre-MOOC and equivalent to MOOC for young people. Makes me wonder about my addiction to WordsFree and Scrabble on my iphone and desire to beat the computer again and again. Or enrolling in a MOOC where the opportunity to connect with smart, similarly-quested learners/achievers/doers must motivate me to overcome challenges of schedule, technology, serendipitous approach to learning, self-expression, etc. The MOOC is simply a much bigger playground where my motivation and my two feet (or eyes!) rule my behavior .

The Blog of Tim Ferriss with guest post by Peter Diamandis about crowdsourcing problems and going to capital sources for funding. Reviews the changes in communication and cooperation and what is now possible with ICTs.

I haven't determined that any of these is the preferred channel for doing the W.W. database, Lyn. But the idea of incentivizing the creation and maintenance of a crowdsourced 'database' (for lack of a better term) is offered by these groups. A wiki that is set up for a Learning W.W. could be the beginning app until we find someone to do it or a tool to do it better. Even using Diigo in a paid account could work to gather tagged contributions with better organization to follow when we enlist someone to help us.

Look at the "SOCIAL" acronyms--collaboration shows up in both. Guest blog written by Kriss Deiglmeier, ED of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, appearing on Beth's Blog on 2/28/12. Believe these help define WL Studio's raison d'etre.

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5 blogs between February 2012 and August 2011, with latest published October 11, 2011, written by 3 authors. No comments on blogs.

profile of Shireen Mitchell, NCWO's Chair of the Media and Technology Taskforce, president of the board of CTCNet, and founder/ED of Digital Sisters/Sistas, a nonprofit org focused on using media and technology to access self-sufficiency tools for women and children.