KnowledgeStar

DECEMBER 1, 2011

This is a MUST WATCH for anyone interested in the future of what we today call the K-12 grades. And if the past gives us any signage on the road to the future, it also is about the way we will learn in colleges, universities, corporations and other organizations. There are not many people today [.].

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KnowledgeStar

MARCH 6, 2012

One of the biggest reasons people like learning online, especially late at night, is that it's a great way to get to sleep. Just joking.

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KnowledgeStar

JANUARY 31, 2012

I always knew that it’s all in my head, that my brain ruled and not my heart. It’s taken years of work in the Neurosciences to get to the point where they are realizing that they hardly know anything at all about the way the brain really works. John Medina, author of Brain Rules, is [.].

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KnowledgeStar

OCTOBER 8, 2011

If you want someone to remember and forget keep on doing what you’ve always done as an teacher or professor or instructor. Talk about the WHAT and HOW of whatever you’re trying to get your students to learn. If you really want them to give you some of their precious brainspace to really know about [.].

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KnowledgeStar

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Jane Hart is one of my great “go-to” resources for all things learning. Every year she posts a great review of the Top 100 Tools. Here it is and Thanks, Jane! “Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list. In the last few days of voting there was a surge of contributions [.].

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KnowledgeStar

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Premise ADDIE is the illegitimate child of the Industrial Age, and using it is an addiction that almost always leads to formal training programs that are, in these digital days of rapidly advancing Social Learning, close to worthless. The good news? There is a better alternative … Note: This is Part One of a two [.].

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KnowledgeStar

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I’m at the point where I’m beginning to think that we’ve come full circle. 350 years ago, before “education” became formal and public, we had spent hundred’s of thousands years learning stuff. We sat around fires and listened to stories.

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KnowledgeStar

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Why build a Spanish LMS? First, more and more of the schools with whom I’ve spoken this past year, individually and at conferences and meetings, have told me they need one and need one now. So I did some research and that brings us to the second point. The surprising facts: Spanish is spoken by [.].

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KnowledgeStar

DECEMBER 9, 2011

In the future all learning experiences will be flipped … “Will the teacher please step to the front of the room.” ” .

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KnowledgeStar

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I am always looking for new and potentially useful technologies that I might transfer to improve the learning experience. Here’s another I found today. Soundtracks for books … The questions, to which books or textbooks would you add a soundtrack to enhance the learning experience and further enable the learning process?

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