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While the ubiquity of digital media resources allows for more customized learning within a formal learning context, its primary value lies in the acknowledgment of the legitimacy and value of learning that take place beyond formal schooling.
Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-expression. We include here the findings of three years of research on kids' informal learning with digital media.
The brain is not capable of multi-tasking. We can talk and breathe, but when it comes to higher level tasks, we just can't do it. From John Medina's 12 Brain Rules.
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The Dewey Decimal System® was great for its time, but it's outlived that. Libraries today should not be constrained by the mental models of the 1870s, doomed to tinker with an increasingly irrelevant system. Nor should they be forced into a proprietary system-copyrighted, trademarked and licensed by a single entity-expensive to adopt and encumbered by restrictions on publishing detailed schedules or coordinating necessary changes.\n
Prof Timothy Wirth - learning Technologies at Harvard school of ed on new epistemologies "based on collective agreement"\n