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"This article is part three in the series "The New Literacy: Scenes from the Digital Divide 2.0."

"Instead of delivering a set of facts to students, we are engaging them in learning how to get those facts themselves."

The notion of an epochal new-media digital divide shows up in the work of digital theorists such as Howard Rheingold, whose 2002 book, Smart Mobs, posits future generations with the tools of digital literacy and social networking increasingly wired into the brain. The result, Rheingold suggests, will be digitally enabled "smart mobs" that are able to form and dissolve with ease, offering a new way to deal with today's intractable political, social, and economic problems and bringing into being a new educational paradigm. "

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"It measured activity in the brain’s attention systems – just how vigilantly were the students paying attention when they found out of their answer was correct or not? And were the students bothering to pay attention a moment later, when they saw the correct answer? Fundamentally, this study separated students who just wanted to do well on the test from students who really wanted to learn new material.

Before the testing, the students had filled out a questionnaire to assess their motivation personality. Based on their responses, Dweck and Mangels split them into two groups. One group was concerned, primarily, with being better than others. They agreed with statements like, “You have a certain amount of intelligence and you can’t do much to change it,” or “It’s important to me to be smarter than other students.” The other group disagreed with those statements, and instead agreed to comments like, “It’s very important to me that my coursework offer real challenges.” This latter group wasn’t into comparing themselves. Let’s call these two groups the Grade-Hungry and the Knowledge-Hungry.

These attitudes had a significant impact on the EEG readings – the students’ motivation personality was visible in the brain waves, on a millisecond to millisecond graph.

The Grade-Hungry students paid extremely close attention to the moment of green light/red light – they really were obsessed with whether they got the answer right or wrong. But immediately after, their attention systems took a break. They checked out, and they weren’t really paying much attention when the correct answer flashed by.

Respectively, the Knowledge-Hungry paid attention (but not quite as obsessively) to whether they were right or wrong, and they paid significantly more attention to the correct answers. They took advantage of the chance to learn. This contrast was most dramatic when each group got an answer wrong."

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"A review of existing literature on learning reveals four broad components and three distinct processes through which these components are enacted. The components (detailed in Image 6), include:

* Social. Learning is a social[2] process. Knowledge is an emergent property of interactions between networks of learners.
* Situated. Learning occurs within particular situations or contexts. Both "learning and cognition...are fundamentally situated",[3] raising the importance of educational activities mirroring actual situations of use.
* Reflective. Learners requires time to assimilate new information. Learners require the "opportunity to reflect on, defend, and share what they have learned if it is to become part of their available repertoire"[4]
* Multi-faceted. Learning incorporates a range of theory, engagement, "tinkering" or bricolage, and active construction.[5]"

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learning pedagogy

"Through the development of 1) a collaborative, printed book; 2) an e-book; and 3) a repository of innovative ideas at www.invisiblelearning.com, we seek to:

* Share experiences and innovative perspectives, focused on rethinking strategies and innovative approaches to learn and unlearn continuously.
* Promote critical thinking of the role of formal, informal and non-formal education at alleducational levels.
* Contribute to the creation of a sustainable (and continuous) process of learning, innovating and designing new cultures for the global society.

This project aims to facilitate the creation of a globally distributed community of thinkers interested on the creation of new futures for the education."

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Research paper behind news stories about search helping learning

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"Every now and then, we like to remind readers of the audio/video resources that Open Culture makes available to lifelong learners. These collections are all free, and can be downloaded to your computers and mp3 players. When you add it all together, you will find thousands of hours of free educational content here from quality sources. If you have a chance, please "

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"In the opening keynote, “Networked Learners,” Lee Rainie discusses the latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about how teenagers and young adults have embraced technology of all kinds — including broadband, cell phones, gaming devices and MP3 players. He describes how technology has affected the way “digital natives” search for, gather and act on information."

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"Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.

The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of 426 searching tasks. They found that search engines are primarily used for fact checking users' own internal knowledge, meaning that they are part of the learning process rather than simply a source for information. They also found that people's learning styles can affect how they use search engines."

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"Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader’s Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The course manual was written by Tony Carr, Shaheeda Jaffer and Jeanne Smuts and was published online and in print in early 2009.

The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity. The latest version of the course manual includes several minor corrections and is dedicated to the memory of our co-author Jeanne Smuts who died on 28th July 2009.

See Facilitating Online: A guide for course leaders for the latest pdf version of the course manual as well the specimen course site."

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Free video courses from top universities

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"Learning Zeitgeist: The Future of Education is Just-in-Time, Multidisciplinary, Experimental, Emergent"

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"Your school will try to teach you facts, which you'll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate.

But Guy Kawasaki is right in at least this: schools won't teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be successful, either in business (whether or not you choose to live life as a toady) or in life.

Here, then, is my list. This is, in my view, what you need to learn in order to be successful. Moreover, it is something you can start to learn this year, no matter what grade you're in, no matter how old you are. "

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"Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, have shown. Scientists also report that the degree of change reflects how well subjects have learned to perform the task. Their study is published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Recent studies have shown that in the absence of any overt behavior, and even during sleep or anesthesia, the brain's spontaneous activity is not random, but organized in patterns of correlated activity that occur in anatomically and functionally connected regions," says senior author Maurizio Corbetta, M.D., Norman J. Stupp Professor of Neurology. "The reasons behind the spontaneous activity patterns remain mysterious, but we have now shown that learning causes small changes in those patterns, and that these changes are behaviorally important.""

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"Did you know that the Boxcar Children write their stories using Twitter? Keep up with them here:"

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Science 17 July 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5938, pp. 284 - 288
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175626

Review
Foundations for a New Science of Learning
Andrew N. Meltzoff,1,2,3,* Patricia K. Kuhl,1,3,4 Javier Movellan,5,6 Terrence J. Sejnowski5,6,7,8

Human learning is distinguished by the range and complexity of skills that can be learned and the degree of abstraction that can be achieved compared with those of other species. Homo sapiens is also the only species that has developed formal ways to enhance learning: teachers, schools, and curricula. Human infants have an intense interest in people and their behavior and possess powerful implicit learning mechanisms that are affected by social interaction. Neuroscientists are beginning to understand the brain mechanisms underlying learning and how shared brain systems for perception and action support social learning. Machine learning algorithms are being developed that allow robots and computers to learn autonomously. New insights from many different fields are converging to create a new science of learning that may transform educational practices.

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HUGE linklist of brain-based learning resources

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This project will compile 10-12 stories about constructive mistakes that address ideas and concerns relevant to the practice of community economic development.



Constructive mistakes occur in spite of thoughtful design and implementation. These failures somehow defy the best theories, past experience, and sound advice, in contrast to non-constructive failures that frequently result from a lack of comprehensive design and effort. Constructive mistakes call into question key design assumptions about problems, strategic interventions, implementation, partners, and even methods of documentation and evaluation. Most importantly, constructive mistakes provide invaluable insights into problems and solutions, and could lay the groundwork for the next generation of investments.



Many of our failures grow out of our inability to anticipate, learn, and adapt. These capacities involve understanding the dynamics of complex environments and trends, fully grasping the lessons embodied in experience, and changing course and redesigning interventions in real time. Building these capacities, however, requires flexible resources which are frequently the most difficult to obtain.

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