Personal vs. Social; Learning

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This slideshow and podcast of Stephen Downes presentation called “Pedagogical Foundations For Personal Learning” is worth watching and listening to.  His ideas about what learning is vs. what we do in schools currently is quite interesting.  This presentation is an example of new, cutting edge ideas that aren’t flowing out of K-12 professional organizations like [...]

Review; Footprints in the Digital Age

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Just read easily the most concise and actionable article on the power of the connected learner.  The article by Will Richardson is from the November 2008 issue of Educational Leadership entitiled Footprints in the Digital Age. The article’s strength is its breath of scope (it covers everything from blogs to WOW) and explains exactly why [...]