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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

As it turns out, what students say they want from their school experience, or about learning in general, can be rather illuminating for those charged with teaching them. And we also talked about screen time, self-directed learning and why kids today don’t drust dot com domains. For students today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

A safe and cooperative climate for learning. Support and training to promote continual professional learning. Data to track and promote collaborative inquiry and practices that improve student learning. Cultivating leadership in staff, parents, and community partners.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

While individual members may have differing levels of competency, the group must be able to work collaboratively to achieve group norms and defined level of competency. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002).

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Organizational learning theories

Connecting 2 the World

The first is based on the idea of organizational knowledge management in which knowledge is codified into information which the organization and individuals can access, monitor, acquire, and store (Allee, 1997; Contu & Willmott, 2003; Raelin, 2008). Organizational learning: A socio-cognitive framework. References: Akgun, A.,

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Five Ways Design and Making Can Help Science Education Come Alive

MindShift

2003; Cornett 1986). In summary, the use of the design process in school is a creative exploration of hard, yet fun problems (rigor, risk and reward), positive identity formation (“I am creative,” “I am a scientist,” “I can solve problems”) and collaborative learning (“we are greater than me”). Benefit No.

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10Q: Cathy N. Davidson

Learning with 'e's

We said if they came up with new learning uses for what was in 2003 a "music-listening device," and if they could convince a prof to change a syllabus to include this new learning application in the course, then we would give a free iPod to the professor and every student in that class. I advocate Learning 3.0,

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We''ve got lots of training going on for presenters and volunteer moderators; we''ve got the amazing Nikki Ugalde doing special training sessions in both English and Spanish; we''ve got an awesome set of sponsors , partner organizations , and advisory board members (and we can always use more!) More information in presenting HERE.