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Brian C. Smith

Personal Learning Network or Professional Learning Network? - 9 views

I've been thinking similarly around this topic and would like to share three perspectives/roles I've been sharing with educators in my area: 1) Personal/Professional Learner I agree with Marianne ...

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Ginger Lewman

A New Culture of Learning by Doug Thomas & John Seely Brown - 6 views

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    Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. Our understanding of what constitutes "a new culture of learning" is based on several basic assumptions about the world and how learning occurs:
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The Science Behind Adult Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Edutopia blogger Elana Aguilar explains that facilitating professional development for teachers means understanding and knowing the science behind adult learning.
Lucy Gray

The Fischbowl: The Invention of Air, PLNs, and School Transformation - 0 views

  • The whole notion of intellectual circulation or flow is embedded in the word “influence” itself (“to flow into,” influere in the original Latin). Good ideas influence, and are themselves influenced by, other ideas
  • This resonates for me in relation to my own blogging, where I often think of blogging as “rough draft thinking”, or “thinking in progress,” and where I count on commenters and linkers to help me refine my own thinking.
  • I believe we miss so much, and our students miss so much, because we view so much of what we do as transitory, and not worth keeping or revisiting. What is it about self-reflection (again, both professionally and with/by our students) that worries us so?
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  • An idea that flows through society does not grow less useful as it circulates; most of the time, the opposite occurs: the idea improves, as its circulation attracts the “attention of the Ingenious,” as Franklin put it.
  • We are going to have to seize on the current crisis to make transformative change and conjure up new institutions – or least new learning paradigms. One of our core values must be to seize these "new ways of sharing ideas or organizing human life," to be compulsive sharers and utilize these tools and our learning networks to transform our schools, our communities and our world.
Ginger Lewman

YouTube - I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0.mov - 5 views

  • My friend Rae helped me with this version! Download the QT version here: http://kevinhoneycutt.orgVisit my sites for more stuff!http://artsnacks.orghttp://podstock.ning.com/http://mysafesurf.org
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    Poignant song for our times. Download the QT version here: http://kevinhoneycutt.org Visit my sites for more stuff! http://artsnacks.org http://podstock.ning.com/ http://mysafesurf.org
Ginger Lewman

Kathy Schrock's - Google Blooms Taxonomy - 3 views

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    The graphic below is a clickable image map. Simple click on the tool to visit it!
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