Learning is Change

This blog post is a beautiful metaphor and summarizes much of the conversation that we had on Friday regarding…

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This blog post is a beautiful metaphor and summarizes much of the conversation that we had on Friday regarding badges and micro-credentials.

How are you creating cultivating spaces rather than harvesting spaces for your learners?

#ProfessionalDevelopment  

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Hey Ben, It looks like you were contacting this account, my work Google+ account, and not my personal account for the panel last Friday. I am so bummed that I missed the invite. I really did want to be on the panel. Anyway, I was contributing to the notes and I wrote a blog post and put it on the reflection doc. Hope to connect with you more in the future. I love what you are trying to do with collaborative roundtables. 

http://igniteducation.com/2014/02/10/botanical-badging/

I am really interested in the “myths” that are debunked in this study:

 

I am really interested in the “myths” that are debunked in this study:

Myth 1: New technologies are being developed all the time, the past history of the impact of technology is irrelevant to what we have now or will be available tomorrow. 

Myth 2: Today’s children are digital natives and the ‘net’ generation – they learn differently from older people. 

Myth 3: Learning has changed now we have access to knowledge through the internet, today’s children don’t need to know stuff, they just need to know where to find it. 

Myth 4: Students are motivated by technology so they must learn better when they use it. 

Myth 5: The Everest Fallacy: we must use technology because it is there!

Myth 6: The “More is Better” Fallacy.

http://dern2.acer.edu.au/dern/research-reviews/page/digital-technology-trends-and-learning

Launching the #ILearnFrom project to honor those in your PLN.

I realized a long while ago that Follow Friday (or #FF on twitter) wasn’t a very good way to honor the depth of learning going on in social spaces. So, I am attempting to do something more personal, more connected to help in this regard.

In this video blog from The Fellowship of Open Spokes I talk about the hashtag that I am using to honor all of the amazing people I am learning from: #ILearnFrom.

Essentially, it goes like this:

#ILearnFrom @TwitterUser because [my reason for learning from them]. Ask [him or her] about [something I know they are working on and/or are good at].

My hope is that this hashtag is a way to invite one another to connect.

My central question is: Who do you learn from?

And, how do you connect others to those who you are learning from?

#ILearnFrom all of you. Who do you learn from?

Here are all of the people (including me) that are using this hashtag. Please use it and keep the conversation going.


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