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Spin: The Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010
Hidden in the tweetstream from the Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 are hundreds of provocative insights, comments, and observations, and we couldn't help but mine the archive for another round. The full stream can be found here: #dml2010. The tweets we've collected below contain ideas, questions, and thoughts that can be readily absorbed by both those who attended the conference and those who did not - as well as recommended resources and links.… more
I appreciate the attempt to do some follow up with the conference, but to post tweet threads of a select group of participants adds little to the conversation.
Reimagining Learning
Teaching and education in America has been a very hot subject in the news. In recent days, there have been lengthy pieces on “building a better teacher,” the ripple effects of a Rhode Island school board’s decision to fire the entire faculty of a poorly performing school and President Obama’s remarks, and the results of a large survey of teachers. So, I wanted to bring attention to a new effort coming out of the office of our friend, Jim Shelton, at the U.S. Department of Education. It’s a new web 2.0 site on Ed.gov called The Open Innovation Portal. It is intended to be a place where all of us in the learning field can contribute our ideas, commentary, and know-how.… more
Apprenticeship 2.0 Could Fuel 21st Century Learning
In a recent New Yorker piece on cookbooks, Adam Gopnik observes that "the space between learning the facts about how something is done and learning how to do it always turns out to be large, at times immense." Although Gopnik is explicitly referring to cooking, this statement could be equally applied to most forms of learning since the nineteenth century.… more
I think communities of practice will evolve as the result of the social media space, meaning we will not hear of them as much. I do like the idea of apprenticeship and mentoring. We need more knowledge transfer, and soft skills going from Baby Boomers to Gen X and Y.
