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Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey of Rethinkinglearning have, with the input of those who took their Personalized Learning eCourse, revised the chart for the Stages of Personalized Learning Environments. They now have a chart for Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization, an adapted chart to transform learning to Personalized Learning, and the Stages of Personalized Learning Environments chart. This bookmark brings you to the page to download all 3 charts, as well as their report explaining the Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization chart.

Excellent catch, Lisa. I commented on Barbara's page about its utility and shared the cpsquare.org page with her on our inquiry last Fall and our use of Jane Hart's matrix on the evolution of the learning support professional's role.

Patrick Allan from Lifehacker proposes this simple journal template to reflect each day. In the Challenge course with Jane Hart, we are using this at the end of our day as a daily reflection, and then will report via our discussion group about our learning, and respond to others. It is a nice ritual to practice. Part of the exercise at the end of the week is to discuss how we will continue the practice after the 15 weeks are over.

Interesting article in Educational Psychologist 50(4), 313-334, 2015 Constructivist Gaming: Understanding the Benefits of Making Games for Learning by Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke. Although the research is about k-12, there are implications in this article for all learners.They used existing research (using specific criteria to choose appropriate research) about gaming use and principles, and then used constructivist theory to posit a new way of gaming design. Gaming is very effective in building coding and computational concepts, practices, and perspectives as identified by other researchers, but the authors go further in applying the constructivist theory of personal, social, and cultural tenets to these categories. They argue that student-designed gaming is an effective way to build social networks around a work purpose, and that iterative processes are going to be the norm.

good information about how being poor limits access to high quality experiences online and access to employment and applications online

Bascuas on workers' desire for training and development

concise overview of how to use an ESN for L & D in the workplace by Jane Hart--learning challenge=ECO format

examples of career pages by companies

examples of company career pages

boomers who are retiring and working

January 2016 blog post that updates what's happening in the online recruiting world, noting that LinkedIn is being imitated by other job listing sites to encourage more LinkedIn-style networking.

Explains why Indeed, LinkUp, and SimplyHired are three best job search engines of 2015--biggest job pool, strong search tools, mobile integration and ease, being able to post one's resume, limiting jobs from company career pages which avoids out of date or duplicate listings.

A job board is any website that connects job seekers to employment opportunities. Careerlead.com

interesting case of The Ladders, "premium job board" being sued for advertising jobs that did not exist at quoted salary level

infographic on job search confidentiality from 2012

AARP uses Indeed's data base for job searches

Lou Adler writes about performance based hiring and doing away with job descriptions. He cites Todd Rose's book as evidence and inspiration.

interesting look by Karen Sands on boomers' reasons for retiring/launching third and fourth "ages"

a good article by Natalie Walters at Business Insider on how not to network--good ideas

Hart's five step change process for modern workplace learning

"The Easy How-To Guide to Formatting Resumes for Applicant Tracking Systems" by Lisa Rangel on LinkedIn. Quick, easy to read explanation of what ATS is, how it works, and how to format a resume for ATS success.