Bildung/Soziales 2.0 [Education/Social 2.0]

Twitter ist vor allem ein Kommunikationswerkzeug und entfaltet häufig im Verbund mit anderen Werkzeugen seine Stärke. Twitter dient zur schnellen Information, dient als Feedbackkanal und ermöglicht den Austausch der Teilnehmer untereinander. Twitter ermöglicht * Ansichten und Gedanken zu äußern, sich Inspiration zu holen und laut nachzudenken. * Diskussionen und Trends zu verfolgen. Man bekommt mit was auf Veranstaltungen läuft und über Twitter und Twitterwalls werden Meinungen gebildet. * Fragen zu stellen und Feedback zu bekommen. Kontakte zu Experten können ohne formale Barrieren geknüpft werden.

Sicher nicht nur für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen interessant ist dieser Praxisleitfaden der erläutert, wie Unternehmen Werkzeuge des Web 2.0 nutzbringend zum Lernen einsetzen. Der Leitfaden beschreibt die wichtigsten Tools, die das Lernen leichter und effizienter machen: Blogs, Twitter, Mikroblogs, Wikis, virtuelle Klassenräume, Videokonferenzsysteme und persönliche Lernumgebungen. Ein weiteres Kapitel zählt Möglichkeiten auf, klassische E-Learning-Anwendungen mit Web 2.0-Instrumenten zu verbinden.

"The world is going open source, but that doesn't mean every organization's culture is open-sourced. New ideas and systems need nurturing."

Five different categories of social learning:\n 1. Formal Structured Learning\n 2. Personal Directed Learning\n 3. Group Directed Learning\n 4. Intra-Organisational Learning\n 5. Accidental & Serendipitous Learning\n

A chart that conmpares 3 different ways in terms of the social media functionality they offer.

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Volume 10, Number 5.

"Designing Mobile Learning: Principles and Practices "

Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster; CampusBug, Grockit, TutorVista, EduFire, English Cafe, and the list goes on and on. What will happen to about 20% of the workplace learning professionals is that some VP/C level in your company will have their teenager or college age kid use one of these services and tell them about it. They will they proceed to wonder why you aren't doing something similar.

Openoffice plugin providing integration with GoogleDocuments and Zoho.

September/October 2008 Teaching 21st Century Skills What does it look like in practice? by Nancy Walser Call it a quiet revolution. As 2014 approaches-the deadline for all students to be proficient on state tests-academics, educators, business groups, and policymakers are finding common ground in a movement to bring "21st century skills" to the classroom, prompting state agencies and district leaders across the country to rewrite curriculum standards and even to contemplate big changes to existing state testing systems. What are 21st century skills, who's pushing them, and what does 21st century teaching look like in practice? Although definitions vary, most lists of 21st century skills include those needed to make the best use of rapidly changing technologies; the so-called "soft skills" that computers can't provide, like creativity; and those considered vital to working and living in an increasingly complex, rapidly changing global society (see "Skills for a New Century," p. 2). "Some of these skills have always been important but are now taking on another meaning-like collaboration. Now you have to be able to collaborate across the globe with someone you might never meet," explains Christopher Dede, a Harvard professor who sits on the Massachusetts 21st Century Skills Task Force. "Some are unique to the 21st century. It's only relatively recently, for example, that you could get two million hits on an [Internet] search and have to filter down to five that you want."

Basisnähe ist bei den Grünen ein wichtiger Faktor. Vorteile sind vor allem eine unglaubliche "politische Erdung", gefolgt von einer hohen Glaubwürdigkeit