Kapp Notes

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Old vs New Ways of Thinking About…

Kapp Notes

Looking at the difference between old and new ways of thinking about knowledge, information, learning, video games and other critical concepts. Interface and Information are Separate. Information is the Interface. E-learning, Google, Wikipedia. Information Processing. Informal. Perception of…. Structured.

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In Defense of the Term “Gamification” as used by Learning Professionals

Kapp Notes

The analogy I give is of Wikipedia. Teachers always tell students not to use Wikipedia, some even ban Wikipedia. However, when asked to write a report, where is the first place kids go for initial information?….Wikipedia Wikipedia (banned or not). Educate them on the proper use of Wikipedia.

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Random Web 2.0 Statistics

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Top US Search Providers October 2009 ) There are more than 85,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages at Wikipedia. Wikipedia has 10,992,799 registered users, including 1,696 administrators.( ) An estimated 6.8 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 66.1

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Why is 3D so Good for Learning:Episodic Memory

Kapp Notes

Episodic memory is information stored in person’s long term memory that receives and stores information about temporally dated episodes or events and temporal-spatial relations among those events. The information that you were in Philadelphia for New Years eve celebrating at Penn’s Landing is episodic memory.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Collaborative sharing and commenting on information. Good for getting information from a multitude of experts on a topic in a conversational format. Sharing information, interests and areas of focus. Connecting disparate pieces of information together across silos of organizations. A group can all edit the same document.

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Pedia Palooza

Kapp Notes

Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks Presentation Materials And I have noticed a number of other Social Networking uses in corporate and government arenas focusing on a Wikipedia-style open exchange of information. Also, here is a thought provoking presentation titled Learning from Wikipedia: Open Collaboration within Corporations.

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Develop: When Does Collective Wisdom Make Sense?

Kapp Notes

She gave several examples including Wikipedia which was interesting since that very day, faculty at Bloomsburg University were having an email discussion about the value of Wikipedia to students and for research. As soon as Wikipedia knew what the errors were, they were fixed. tools for gathering collective intelligence.

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