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18 Nov 09

e-Learning: What’s Hot and What’s Not? « Performance X Design

Overview of current trends in e-learning. According to this post, what's hot is social media, informal learning, simulations & scenario-based learning, virtual worlds, rapid learning, mobile learning, open source, and performance support.

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26 Feb 09

Writing in the 21st Century

Report from the National Council of Teachers of English with a call to action to teach writing appropriately for the 21st century. Writing now often happens outside school in social spaces where people learn informally through their peers. Includes an overview of how writing has been viewed historically and how that has affected how we teach writing.

"Writing has never been accorded the cultural respect or the support that reading has enjoyed, in part because through reading, society could control its citizens, whereas through writing, citizens might exercise their
own control."

"Writing has historically and inextricably been linked to testing."

"In much of this new composing, we are writing to share, yes; to encourage dialogue, perhaps; but mostly, I think, to participate."

"First, we have moved beyond a pyramid-like, sequential model of literacy development in which print literacy comes first and digital literacy comes second and networked literacy practices, if they come at all, come third and last."

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31 Oct 08

Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn

Like several other people, I just found this 2006 post from Stephen Downes on 10 things you should learn that you won't be taught in school. Great thoughts for lifelong learning, wherever you are in life.

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1. How to predict consequences
The prediction of consequences is part science, part mathematics, and part visualization.
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- 2. How to read
- Oddly, by this I do not mean 'literacy' in the traditional sense, but rather, how to look at some text and to understand, in a deep way, what is being asserted
- 3. How to distinguish truth from fiction
- The first thing to learn is to actually question what you are told, what you read, and what you see on television. Do not simply accept what you are told. Always ask, how can you know that this is true? What evidence would lead you to believe that it is false?
- 4. How to empathize
- Empathy isn't some sort of bargain. It isn't the application of the Golden Rule. It is a genuine feeling in yourself that operates in synch with the other person, a way of accessing their inner mental states through the sympathetic operation of your own mental states. You are polite because you feel bad when you are rude; you are honest because you feel offended when you lie.
- 5. How to be creative
- Creativity, in other words, often operates by metaphor, which means you need to learn how to find things in common between the current situation and other things you know.
- 6. How to communicate clearly
- Communicating clearly is most of all a matter of knowing what you want to say, and then employing some simple tools in order to say it.
- 7. How to Learn
- Learning to learn is the same as learning anything else. It takes practice.
- 8. How to stay healthy
- Finally, remember: you never have to justify protecting your own life and health.
- 9. How to value yourself
- You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but they are meaningless if you do not feel personally empowered to use them; it's like owning a Lamborghini and not having a driver's license.
- 10. How to live meaningfully
- If you don't decide what is worth doing, someone will decide for you, and at some point in your life you will realize that you haven't done what is worth doing at all.

12 Mar 08

eLearn: Case Studies - Telling an Old Story in a New Way: Raid on Deerfield

Case study of a website using primary sources to tell the story of the raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704. Also asks how you determine the success of a site like this, which isn't formal e-learning.

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25 Feb 08

Creating Passionate Users: Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers

Kathy Sierra, from 2005, arguing that simply having taken a lot of classes doesn't make one a good teacher or trainer ("I'd make a good brain surgeon, because I've HAD brain surgery.") However, she also argues that motivated people can be self-taught.

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But with that out of the way, nobody needs a PhD (or in most cases -- any degree at all) in education or learning theory to be a good teacher. Just as there are plenty of great software developers and programmers without a CompSci degree. People can be self-taught, and do a fabulous job, for a fraction of the cost of a formal education, but they have to be motivated and they have to appreciate why it's important.

06 Mar 07