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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

From a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton called Technology and Teaching: Flipping the Model : Khan stumbled upon the idea for his free web-based academy while trying to teach math to cousins in New Orleans. View all posts by Jon → ← Re-evaluating Evaluation What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning?

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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. I’ll be seeing it again!

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The $2 Whiteboard Shows Power of Peer-to-Peer Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

He contrasts two teaching methods that involve different kinds of whiteboards: one that costs $2,000, and one that costs $2. That’s why this post from Frank Noschese is so great. The difference: peer-to-peer interaction. less big companies, for more than 20 years. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Lessons from Children’s Books on the Workplace & Employee Experience

SweetRush

These universal life lessons found in children’s books are equally useful (and woefully needed) for adults in the workplace. This saying reminds adults of seemingly obvious, foundational lessons from our formative years. These basic lessons show us that the simplest aspects of life can get lost in the complexity of our daily routines.

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Most of the time we end up brainstorming ways to incorporate tools like Twitter or Facebook into his lessons, because even though I may have more experience using social media, the tools are so new that no one really knows the best way to utilize them, for anything really. Anthony is building roads for teachers to drive on.

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

View all posts by Andrea → ← What Can Charlie Sheen Teach Us About Internal Marketing? Adobe has a twitter widget for Captivate 5 that allows elearninger to ask a Q about a lesson from inside the.swf. I’d love to hear yours. Can Games Transform the World? Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Who's Going to Build the Social Learning Roads?

Dashe & Thomson

Most of the time we end up brainstorming ways to incorporate tools like Twitter or Facebook into his lessons, because even though I may have more experience using social media, the tools are so new that no one really knows the best way to utilize them, for anything really. Anthony is building roads for teachers to drive on.