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TAMING INFORMATION OVERLOAD BEFORE IT DEVOURS

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Instead of building in standard ISD form, with outlines, chapters, sections, modules and such, work the opposite way. Ensure there are milestones and reviews, a standard practice that now takes on added importance – emblazon the objectives across the top of every QA review document, 6. Operate with Precision.

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RETHINKING THE RAZOR “ILT HAS THE SHELF LIFE OF MILK” or an INTRODUCTION TO Instructor Led Interactive Learning (ILIL or Live Action Learning)

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Opportunities for corrective action on site to bring the learner up the highest acceptable standards. Following through with learning on site, in the real environment – with reference back to exemplars of preferred information, skills and behaviors. All the elements of repetition are here, but in different learning styles and modalities.

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Your Inner Critic – Cueing up What You Know

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To paraphrase liberally, that’s a mistake because that voice is the one that has us question our creative decisions against a standard. And the critic sets standards. As the author Mark McGuiness scribes, the inner critic has gotten a bad wrap – interrupting, interfering and disjointing our drive to move forward.

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BIG DATA, GOOD INFORMATION & A WAY FOR YOU TO USE IT

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The flow chart illustrates how information would be categorically organized; a model for the standardization of an information life cycle in big data world. Here’s a model than might help us slow down a bit, turn down the faucet and cull out know information and potentially new content when big data offers additional tonnage of content.

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Learning Design: The Great, The Good and The Good Enough

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However, this works well only when everything being made is a replica set to standardized requirements. Think of the industrial model—build an assembly line, now improve the assembly line and the tools—then make better products. Learning is not like that.

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GAMIFICATION – PLAYING AT (NOT) LEARNING

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They use the best practices of education and peda-androgogy and because they are dynamic and built to the same standard as say ‘World of Warcraft’ I find them admirable. For clarity, Games are well-crafted stories built in digital form with learning objectives frequently placing the learner in real life decision-making situations.

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THE TEACHER-BUILT TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION IS HERE: A GIFT TO PROFESSIONALS OR A POX ON INSTRUCTION

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When school boards—think Texas or Kansas here—demand textbooks align to standardized or ‘high stakes’ tests that themselves are replete with prejudicial, politicized and questionable information the truth dies in the false rhetoric among the vehement and vocal critics of modernism.