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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

Nothing new here, but never the less a nice summary about the emergence of participatory learning ecosystem suited not just for formal school learning, but also for continuous, lifelong learning.

Tags: educause, john_seeley_brown, richard_p_adler, learning_about_vs_learning_to_be, social_learning, virtual_communities_of_practice, the_battle_of_ideas, productive_inquiry, john_dewey, michael_polanyi, second_life, adding_community_to_content, the_long_tail, ecology_of_ on 2008-08-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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More than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. There are over 30 million people today qualified to enter a university who have no place to go. During the next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week.
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.
Mastering a field of knowledge involves not only “learning about” the subject matter but also “learning to be” a full participant in the field.
This encourages the practice of what John Dewey called “productive inquiry”—that is, the process of seeking the knowledge when it is needed in order to carry out a particular situated task.
Because my goal as a teacher is to bring my students into full legitimate participation in the community of instructional technologists as quickly as possible, all student writing was done on public blogs. The writing students did in the first few weeks was interesting but average. In the fourth week, however, I posted a list of links to all the student blogs and mentioned the list on my own blog. I also encouraged the students to start reading one another's writing. The difference in the writing that next week was startling. Each student wrote significantly more than they had previously. Each piece was more thoughtful. Students commented on each other's writing and interlinked their pieces to show related or contradicting thoughts. Then one of the student assignments was commented on and linked to from a very prominent blogger. Many people read the student blogs and subscribed to some of them. When these outside comments showed up, indicating that the students really were plugging into the international community's discourse, the quality of the writing improved again. The power of peer review had been brought to bear on the assignments.¹⁷
The world is evolving at an increasing pace. When jobs change, as they are likely to do, we can no longer expect to send someone back to school to be retrained. By the time that happens, the domain of inquiry is likely to have morphed yet again.

Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe

# Part 1: The Impact of Instructional Technologies;
# Part 2: Preparing Online Courses;
# Part 3: Implementing Technology;
# Part 4: E-learning in Action;
# Part 5: Engagement and Communication

Tags: commonwealth_of_learning, online_books, BCcampus, online_teaching, social_learning, curriculum_design, learning_management, learning_design, guides:teaching on 2008-07-01 and saved by20 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Footnote

an online repository for original documents and community of people surrounding their history. Many documents required paid membership.

Tags: history, repositories, social_learning on 2007-12-25 and saved by144 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Wesabe: Get to Know Your Money

community site for managing your money

Tags: finance, web_services, social_learning on 2007-12-23 and saved by56 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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What's the evolutionary advantage of laughing when someone tickles you? Robert Provine's research suggests the answer is nothing; laughter is simply how we connect with one another.

According to Provine, you are 30 times more likely to laugh when you're with other people than when you're alone. Laughing is not like an instinctive physical response to humour, say the way shiver is to feeling cold. Humour is crafted to exploit a form o

Tags: steven_berlin_johnson, laughter, social_learning, neuroscience, discover_magazine on 2007-07-21 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Trailfire

Lets you create a “trail” through the web, and mark it up, this way you could create a path for students to follow and read related pages on the web.

Tags: social_learning, bookmarks on 2007-05-13 and saved by90 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Mobile Instant Messaging Meets Social Networking: Twitter - A Beginner's Guide

Tags: im, mobile_computing, social_learning, twitter, guides, robin_good on 2007-04-29 and saved by20 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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What Should I Read Next?

Enter a book. Receive advice on what to read next.

Tags: online_books, social_learning, tools:search on 2007-02-16 and saved by78 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Guardian Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special

Interviews with Jimmy Wales (wikipedia), Evan Williams (Odeo), Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), Micahael and Xochi Birch (BeboO, Sam Schillace (Writely), Kevin Rose (Digg), Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist), Marin Stiksel (Last.fm), Joshua Schacter

Tags: social_learning on 2006-11-05 and saved by23 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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shanta's listal page

Listal - Social media cataloging, movies, books, music and games.

Tags: social_learning, my_content on 2006-06-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Contactlink: Keeps You Connected

a service that lets you be more easily found by people you want to be found by without having to make any of your curent contact information public

Tags: social_learning, foaf on 2006-02-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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FOUND Magazine

"We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards...anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life"

Tags: social_learning, publications on 2005-10-10 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Jots

a social bookmarking system

Tags: metadata, social_bookmarking, social_learning, RSS on 2005-08-04 and saved by16 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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H2O Playlist

This is a way to share lists of readings about "a topic of intellectual interest." Instead of sharing single links, it let you exchange a coherent body of links. IT reminds me a little of Amazon's booklists

Tags: collaboration, social_bookmarking, social_learning on 2005-07-14 and saved by64 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Num Sum

webapp that lets you save and share spreadsheets

Tags: social_learning, social_bookmarking on 2005-07-04 and saved by90 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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wikiHow

collaborative writing project to build a how-to manual

Tags: collaboration, wiki, social_learning, commons on 2005-06-11 and saved by75 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour

uses the popular puzzle called the Prisoner's Dilemma Game to examine how cooperation might arise and evolve in animal groups.

Tags: courses, games_&_virtual_worlds, social_learning on 2005-02-28 -All Annotations (0) -About

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http://thingster.org

Users can publish 'virtual post it notes' about any geographic location: a street intersection, a street address, a restaurant, a hiking trail or a geocache

Tags: social_learning on 2005-02-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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