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Joy Seed

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 1 views

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Social Learning

shared by Joy Seed on 17 Sep 11 - Cached
  • learn the ropes” and become trusted members of the community through a process of legitimate peripheral participation.
  • which the students are able to use remotely to carry out their own scientific investigations
    • Garry Leroy Baker
      Garry Leroy Baker on 17 Sep 11
       
      The benefits are clear for homeschooled students.
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    • Joy Seed
      Joy Seed on 17 Sep 11
       
      The internet provides an excellent opportunity to educate more people in more more subjects for less. It also enables to change the way that we teach and learn with a focus on collaboration and social learning. 
  • If access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life, then we need to address the problem of the growing global demand for education, as identified by Sir John Daniel.3
  • Fortunately, various initiatives launched over the past few years have created a series of building blocks that could provide the means for transforming the ways in which we provide education and support learning. Much of this activity has been enabled and inspired by the growth and evolution of the Internet, which has created a global “platform” that has vastly expanded access to all sorts of resources, including formal and informal educational materials. The Internet has also fostered a new culture of sharing, one in which content is freely contributed and distributed with few restrictions or costs.
  • Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
  • As more of learning becomes Internet-based, a similar pattern seems to be occurring. Whereas traditional schools offer a finite number of courses of study, the “catalog” of subjects that can be learned online is almost unlimited. There are already several thousand sets of course materials and modules online, and more are being added regularly.
Ruth Ingulsrud

Why Johnny Can't Search - 6 views

www.wired.com/...st_thompson_searchresults

technology education learning search internet

shared by Ruth Ingulsrud on 15 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Ruth Ingulsrud on 15 Nov 11
     
    This is what we are starting to teach in 5th grade library as students prepare to begin a long research project.
  • Thinnes Anne-Marie on 17 Nov 11
     
    Thank you Ruth! This article is just about what I am trying to do with my students for years! This is very motivating! I found out last year that linking evaluating and citing sources is a good think to keep students focused: they search the author, publisher etc... and evaluate at the same time. You can read my blog post http://www.coetail.asia/amthinnes/ "changing the way we are teaching" (Sorry, the blog is difficult to read... getting better every week...) , for more info about it. The link I used so far is not bad from 9 grade, but too difficult for the younger children. If you have a better one, let me know! Anyway, it is great to know that we are at the same page.... Cheers, Anne-Marie
Jamie Raskin

An Open Letter to Hilary Duff After an Unexpected Transcendental Experience. - 2 views

www.mcsweeneys.net/...cted-transcendental-experience

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shared by Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      I like the assumption that Hillary probably has a big bathtub. I heard a great Planet Money podcast (http://npr.org/money) that talked about how Warren Buffet still lived in the same random little house he was raised in. It's nice when people defy expectations. Up yours imaginary Hillary.
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