Flipped Classrooms

Love the idea, makes learning peer-to-peer while providing guided instruction, independent study, and social learning.

Created by Knewton and Column Five Media

Marketplace Photo Gallery: Images from 'Portraits of the Mind'

Marketplace Photo Gallery: Images from 'Portraits of the Mind' I absolutely love this podcast and the accompanying slideshow of images of the brain through the ages. No longer a black box, but something that can be observed in action.

Back to School for the Billionaires - Newsweek

Back to School for the Billionaires - Newsweek Schools are just part of a bigger problem. A consumer society where parents spend less time with children than their children spend watching TV. Where shopping is the answer to 9/11. Where "the story" and opinion are more important than facts, and facts are reduced to data points on a power point slide.

Our world is troubling. Can our personal actions and collective force change it even when motivated by our best intentions?

Big Dog, Little Dog: Using Kirkpatrick's Four Levels to Create and Evaluate Informal & Social Learning Processes

Big Dog, Little Dog: Using Kirkpatrick's Four Levels to Create and Evaluate Informal & Social Learning Processes

the cluetrain manifesto - signatories

the cluetrain manifesto - signatories: "s have not yet reached critical mass, so as tiresome as it is, we need to stay connected to the fearful mainstream -- at least by a thread. Be gentle with your education.'"

The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker

The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker: "I"

I love the term "cosmic habituation."

From Marvin Marshall's Promoting Responsibility Newsletter

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
--Maya Angelou

This understanding is critical for becoming more effective
in influencing others.

NOTE: If you understand "choice-response-thinking"
(one of the foundations of the discipline and learning
approach), you would immediately interpret Maya's
term "made" into "prompt"--as in "PROMPTED then to feel."

What we see, hear, taste, smell, or touch PROMPTS our
feelings; no one else "MAKES" or "CAUSES" how you feel.

ARC Principles for Designing Great Learning Experiences

Love this description for designing instruction.

A for Aspiration -- Encouraging them to stretch to do their best.

R for Relevance --  "Empower students to co-create their own learning experience" by researching and relating their quest for knowledge to their own life and current needs and situation.

Clarity - Clear feedback and direction, so learners can quickly progress along their learning journey.

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Photography as Digital Storytelling

This is a great list of resources by D'Arcy Norman for his university class on storytelling. Great links. Great font!

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How to create scenario tasks for testing usability of learning content!

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How do you condense knowledge?

Stories and parables are shortcuts to remember important truths -- physical, theoretical, mathematical, and spiritual.  For example, the mote in the eye. It's easy to see other people's blindspots but not your own.  Therefore it's importance to change our perspective -- to look through someone else's eyes.

Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning @ Xyleme Insider

Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning @ Xyleme Inside

Excellent article on hosting webinars, and the need for both structure and some spontaneity. Informal learning does not mean you should not set objectives, present material, review what was learned. Especially interested reading about people do not always like jumping from slide to slide. Would love to see a replay of this webinar.

27 Twitter Tools To Help You Find And Manage Followers

27 Twitter Tools To Help You Find And Manage Followers

Social learning -- it's the buzz. Don't follow too many people since I'm not totally a smartphone junkie, but my two favorite are Neil Gaiman and Penn Jillette. Not that I follow them for learning, they're just non-commercial.

What tools do you use?