Supposing learning is
social and comes largely from of our experience of participating in daily life?
It was this thought that formed the basis of a significant rethinking of
learning theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s by two researchers from
very different disciplines - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. Their model of
situated learning proposed that learning
involved a process of engagement in a 'community of practice'.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlJean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice - 1 views
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When looking closely at everyday activity, she has argued, it is clear that 'learning is ubiquitous in ongoing activity, though often unrecognized as such' (Lave 1993: 5).
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Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavour: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope. In a nutshell: Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. (Wenger circa 2007)
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50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom | Online Colleges - 0 views
50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching - 0 views
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sk students to create study guides for a specific part of the unit you’re
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Make it a class project to collaboratively write a reference book that others can use.
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Get your class to create a glossary of terms they use and learn about in new units, adding definitions and images.
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50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom | Teaching Degree.org - 0 views
GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It's Very, Very Good. - 0 views
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GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007,
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The basic idea around GrandCentral is “one phone number for all your phones, for life.” Grand Central gives you one phone number that can access all your numbers, whether they be cell, home, mobile, and work numbers; the GrandCentral numbers stay the same
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The service was free and is still going to be free. Users can purchase credit (much like Skype) to make international calls at rates far below what they normally pay. GrandCentral will also remain solely a U.S. service.
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News: Hybrid Education 2.0 - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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he researchers seem more excited by a hybrid application of the open-learning program that, instead of replacing professors, tries to use them more effectively. By combining the open-learning software with two weekly 50-minute class sessions in an intro-level statistics course, they found that they could get students to learn the same amount of material in half the time.
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“At the most selective tier of colleges and universities, they have some significant interest in the existing model of residential education,” says Roger C. Schonfeld, manager of research at Ithaka S+R, the strategy arm of Ithaka, a non-profit higher-ed technology group. “And I think there’s a lot more at risk in terms of the reputation they have built up over the course of decades or centuries, that even for the many advantages that might come from new models, there may be obvious or unforeseen disadvantages they need to guard against.”
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So what exactly is the pedagogical model Carnegie Mellon has discovered, that has inspired such faith? Essentially, it’s an online program that teaches students itself, rather than just being the medium a professor uses to teach. Furthermore, it leverages the opportunity to interact directly with a unique student -- an opportunity a professor addressing dozens of students in a lecture hall does not have.
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