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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems

Learning Visions

Thursday, December 06, 2007 eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems The eLearning Guild hosted a webinar this afternoon featuring the winners of The eLearning DemoFest which took place at the DevLearn Conference & Expo on November 7, 2007. In a true wiki, anyone can get on and change content. She saw the first two presenters.

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#TwistedTropes 30. Halley's boring comet

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Is it because it has a fatal attraction to our sun? Knowledge is always changing , evolving, but the lessons stay the same. When it does make this next comeback, will it notice any significant changes to our education system? But why does it keep coming back? Has it taken a fancy to our solar system? I doubt it very much.

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The realms of possibility

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And yet such people brought us an understanding that the earth orbits the sun, time is relative, computers can do more for us than mere calculations, and much more. Such creativity of imagination produces the big inventions and revelations of our age. It is disruptive and it changes our thinking for ever. Unported License.

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Maker pedagogy

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Learners who produce more than they consume are generally more aware of their own learning processes and can adapt more quickly to changing environments and demands on their skills. My own students become familiar with researching, problem solving, decision making, team working and expressing their creativity. Unported License.

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60 years ago today

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Today I have completed 60 orbits of the sun. In the 80s, I had changed my career, moving from teacher education to work in nurse education. In the 90s, change accelerated. The 00s was a time of more rapid change, where we witnessed the emergence of the social web, and mobile phones became smart. I learnt to program.

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Who will survive?

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Things changed, and they changed dramatically. Wikipedia, the online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, hosts over 14 million articles on just about every subject under the sun. It demands change from education. Many universities and colleges are traditional and conservative, but change is constant and exponential.

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What we don't know

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As I have previously opined, knowledge is also continuously changing, sometimes on a daily basis as scientific breakthroughs and new data bring fresh insights. Why is the sun 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times further away, thus appearing to be exactly the same size and producing perfect solar eclipses every time?