Tag: Social Learning
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Social vs Religious Observation (Cross Posted from boora.ca)
This afternoon, CBC Edmonton played a story about a Muslim family from Egypt who are going to be celebrating their first Christmas here in Edmonton. One segment of the story explores what other people think about the family celebrating Christmas, wondering if they are converts or aren’t “really Muslim”. The father mentions that what they are…
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Purdue and the Back Channel
While it is only experimental, Purdue is starting to test how to make use of the “back channel” in a lecture in the form of an application called “Hotseat“. The students seem to like it. “Hotseat is turning out to be a nice innovation. I’m seeing students interact more with the course and ask relevant…
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Collaboration vs Destination
Dan Pontefract makes an interesting point in his post about the standalone LMS being dead: But … to change the culture, you also need to drive an organization to believe that training does not only happen in an event (ILT and eLearning) and thus, by keeping the standalone LMS alive and kicking, you exacerbate the…
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More thoughts on the Info Pyramid
Stephen Downes noticed my post among others yesterday with regards to the info pyramid. He commented that there was “still no learning” even though I offered an alternative. In my defense, I am of the mind that one can learn from just about anything, but more to the point, the consumption of information at home…
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Learning in the Family – Mom Reigns
I came across a new report funded by BECTA and commissioned by Intuitive Media Research Services. It has some interesting findings, top of which is that kids are turning to Mom at home for tech help (nothing wrong with that). Here are some of the key findings: 92% of children said they used a computer…