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5 technologies to promote creative learning

Learning with e's

2) Wiki''d Writing: Ask your students (in small groups or on their own) to either edit an existing Wikipedia page, or create a new one on a topic not yet covered. The latter option is more advanced and problematic, because many of the commonly known topics are already well covered on Wikipedia. Unported License.

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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

So I first went back to what I wrote about last year: Some of the more specific memories from 2006: I started my blog in February 2006. I had a real "aha experience" after using add-ins to provide features inside my blog. I found myself using Wikipedia early in research tasks on all sorts of topics. I started using del.icio.us

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LCB Question for December - Past Year, Present Challenges, Predictions

Tony Karrer

The Learning Circuits Blog Question for December has been posted. Some of the more specific memories from 2006: I started my blog in February 2006. I had a real "aha experience" after using add-ins to provide features inside my blog. I found myself using Wikipedia early in research tasks on all sorts of topics.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

October 10, 2010 “Whereas people might spend a long time composing a comment to a blog post or engage in lengthy, in - depth conversation on a discussion board, Twitter invites more in - the - moment interactions. Open up the Navigation. Please if you can, look this research up! Using Twitter to Transform the Classroom!

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

While I could write an entire blog post on the reasons for this, I think Clark Quinn summarizes it quite nicely: “As work becomes more complex and the level of information explodes, speed-to-competence will depend on an organizations ability to allow learners to support themselves by tapping into the knowledge of others.”

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Maslow, technology and learning

Learning with e's

I love a good mash-up. But a mash-up takes several ideas, formats or sources and places them together in a new form, to say something new. Amy Burvall and I did this a while back, when we invited people to write some thoughts on learning around an image. It's a digital age version of synthesis.

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