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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

What’s more, they are beginning to use it at an increasingly young age – a recent study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) found that 80% of children age 5 and under use the Internet at least once a week. Properly d.

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Tony Karrer

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Science of Learning

Learning Visions

Information framed in practical terms, rather than theory. I started off reading Clive Shepherds recap of a workshop he attended with Dr. Itiel Doror of Southampton University (UK). I especially like the part about "avoiding grand theories of learning." greatly appreciate the education Im getting. Thanks, gentlemen.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning Styles

Learning Visions

We used a different approach: The Playground Theory of Learning developed by Shelly Loewen. Ive been looking into the learning styles theory a bit the last few days, after having a humble learning moment. Theories do not help us to expand our awareness and understanding of learning; they serve to reduce and confine it.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Debunking the Learning Styles Myth

Learning Visions

I taught a workshop to Adult Basic Education teachers this month. Im interested in your background -- it sounds like your experience is in the classroom. Im definitely not saying to throw out the baby or the bathwater here. Im definitely not saying to throw out the baby or the bathwater here. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Building Measurement into Our Training-Development Process

Learning Visions

Roy and Will have been teaching a one-day workshop on measurement. Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?) Roy : "If Im a business leader, I really need to know if training is working in order to invest $$." Fewer doing Level 3 and 4.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

Belatedly, Im thinking that there are relatively easy ways to enable learners to have cake or to eat it as they see fit. Im not sure I suggested writing WIIFM learning objectives, but they probably have their uses. Atleast in India, I guess most of us strictly follow Blooms Taxonomy and frame learning objectives.