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Clive on Learning: E-Learning Debate 2009
Summary of a debate on e-learning, where most of the negative arguments seemed to be that crappy "click next" e-learning is ineffective but the positive arguments didn't seem much more compelling. Some good quotes though.
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An LMS is just an e-learning vending machine.
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The debate is not about whether e-learning is useful or efficient, but whether the e-learning of today will meet the skills of tomorrow.
SpeEdChange: Refusing Free, Depriving Students
Why do schools refuse to use free and open source software options, even when those options would improve accessibility for students? Ignorance? Fear? Politics? Probably some combination of all three.
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If an electrician was too afraid of electricity to touch a wire, he'd be an electrician no more. So if an educator is afraid of the information and communication technologies of his/her age, then he/she can no longer be an "educator" in any meaningful way.
Flickr: Great quotes about Learning and Change
Flickr group with quotes on learning and change with great images. I could see this being really helpful for presentations
Weblogg-ed » Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too
An argument against standardizing professional development for teachers. Will we ever transform education if we expect every teacher to learn the same things at the same time in the same way? If we personalize their learning and tap into their passions, we might be able to create some real change in education though.
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Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
A Networked Life – Ton Zijlstra on Social Networking
Full quote from Ton Zijlstra on information overload, in the original interview about the value of social media and networking
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Information overload does not exist. Failing information strategies do exist. We were brought up with information strategies based on scarcity. We live in times of information abundance.
Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Learning strategy: follow disgruntle
An interesting idea for a learning strategy--we read so much online from people who are like us and agree with us that when you read something that makes you disgruntled, it may be a cue to dig deeper. Includes a good quote from Ton Zijlstra (via Harold Jarche) about information overload.
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A little while ago, Harold Jarche sent this quotation: “”Information overload does not exist. Failing information strategies do exist. ”
Online Teaching/Learning Quotations
Collection of quotes related to online teaching and learning
e-Learning Centre by Learning Light - e-Learning Quotations
Quotes on e-learning, learning, education, and change.
A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
One of the founders of Flickr writes about building online community. One of his big points is that if you create too many hard and fast rules, people are less creative and open to conversation. It's better to build community by providing spaces for people to negotiate the guidelines for themselves as much as possible.
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The sculpture demonstrated a fascinating idea: given fewer rules, people actually behaved in more creative, co-operative, and collaborative (or competitive, as the case may be) ways.
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Any time you construct specific rules of engagement, they are instantly open to interpretation and circumvention, and we want our members to negotiate their place with each other, not with The Authority.
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growing changing learning creating: Relying on inner teachers
Looking at changing education and giving learners control of their own learning, letting their "inner teachers" guide them.
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When we assume each student has an inner teacher within their minds, we will stop interfering with the discovery, cultivation and trust building with that inner teacher. The inner teacher will come to the fore of the students learning experiences and and reconfigure how they picture learning occurring. Problems with a particular learning challenge or patterns of learning efforts will get worked out between the student and the inner teacher who already knows what the underlying problems are.
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When immersed in learning from everything that happens, people will appear very fascinating to each other. No two people will be the same and offer so much more to explore as their mysterious nature captivates other learners. The process of getting learned about by others-- will give each a feeling of being understood. A context of mutual respect, insight and acceptance will dramatically reduce the urge to get attention, get even or act out frustrations.
Weblogg-ed » Local Connections and Global Connections
Will Richardson, about the Educon 2.0 conference. Great quote about technology from Chris Lehmann. One of Will's insights is that although we often talk about technology in terms of global connections, the connections within the local community also benefit from technology integration.
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As Chris says often, “Technology is not additive; technology is transformative.”
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Finally, the one real head twister that I got yesterday was during Chris’s own session when he was talking about how his thinking is moving away from the “having kids publish globally to the world” product piece of all of this a “let’s focus on the process of community building and publishing within the walls” approach.
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Being a Girl and Being a Boy: The Voices of Middle Schoolers
Quotes and research about gender differences in middle school
Famous Quotes: Educational Quotes for the 21st Century
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Quotes on education and change
- christyinsdesign on 2007-11-20
Quips & Quotes: Multiculturalism
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Hundreds of quotes on diversity and multiculturalism
- christyinsdesign on 2007-10-31
Kapp Notes: Design: Advantages of Interactivity
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Advantages of interactivity in e-learning, with several good quotes and citations
- christyinsdesign on 2007-10-29
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In fact, Michael Moore, of the American Journal of Distance Education, wrote that interactivity between a learner and the content is “the defining characteristic of education. Without it there cannot be education, since it is the process of intellectually interacting with content that results in changes in the learner’s understanding, the learner’s perspective, or the cognitive structures of the learner’s mind .”
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William Horton, a leading expert in the field of web-based instructional design, in his work titled Designing Web-Based Training. Horton writes, “Interactivity boosts learning. People learn faster and develop more positive attitudes when learning is interactive.”
» Thought(s) for the Day Di’s E-learning Experience
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Collection of quotes on learning and technology from a blogger writing for a college course
- christyinsdesign on 2007-10-29
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“The Reality is
Learning has changed…… from being about reality….. to verifying reality…… to creating reality.”
Stephen Downes, A Kaleidoscope of Futures: Reflections on the Reality of Virtual Learning.
No Significant Difference And Distance Education :: Distance-Educator.com's Daily News :: Technology, Teaching, News, Research
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Moving beyond the idea of "no significant difference" and proposing more relevant questions than whether meeting the same learning outcomes is possible or not.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-09-07
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It is not whether we can meet the same learning outcomes
with technology, but how do we use the technologies to enrich the experience, to go beyond what can be done in the face-to-face or other delivery environment.
2¢ Worth » Writing to Communicate
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Tips for communicating through writing--useful for web design or any written communication
- christyinsdesign on 2007-09-06
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If I were writing a manifesto for 21st century teaching and learning, one of the items would be, “The 21st Century classroom does not teach writing — it teaches communication.”
edublogs: The cult of the amateur and how internet changes our culture
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Summary of Andrew Keen & David Weinberger's continuing debate on the Cult of the Amateur, with Ewan's own ideas about the nature of expertise in a connected culture.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-09-04
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Heck, as an absolute amateur in everything I do I've noticed that, in this day and age, being expert is not about getting more and more knowledgeable about a narrower and narrower field. It's all about being as clued up on the reasoning behind a wider and wider range of fields. Expertise has been redefined. It's just that academics like Keen have trouble swallowing it. There, folks, is the real digital divide.
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