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14 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 18

Upside Learning

Need to quench your thirst for the latest in learning, technology and media links further? The proportions of formal and informal learning vary with the task at hand, the context for learning, and the psyche of the learner. Generally, informal learning carries anywhere from four to ten times the weight of formal learning.

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Vygotsky, Piaget and YouTube

Learning with e's

Learning in particular is being democratised. Where once, experts had a monopoly on knowledge and expertise, now anyone it seems can access content that will teach them. This is autodidacticism - teaching yourself. Behind the video is the social support, the scaffolding. Informal learning will never be the same again.

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5 Ways Social Learning Can Lead to an Effective Remote Onboarding Process

Obsidian Learning

But a large component of survival rests upon acquiring the skills you need to make it through life—and how better to develop those skills than to learn them from your mentors, peers, and colleagues: your social group. Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Really, not so much has changed. Unported license.

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#3quotes from Dewey

Learning with e's

One of the first things I learnt from reading Dewey, is that we don't teach subjects, we teach people. In the language of the early 20th Century, Dewey is essentially calling for situated learning, where education can be directly applied to everyday experiences. (p Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Join our global #EDENchat

Learning with e's

Contact me if you're interested in hosting and have a technology supported education theme you would like to propose for #EDENchat. Photo on Pixabay Join our global #EDENchat by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning is changing

Learning with e's

Libraries and 'seats of learning' were traditionally the places to be when formal learning was required. All around, communities and families were also there for informal learning processes to be supported. This in turn promotes new forms of learning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

They won't, however, be positioning themselves well for informal learning, performance support, or knowledge management. Ultimately, careful analysis of the learning task and tools available should drive the method selected. Informal learning accounts for over 75% of the learning taking place in organizations today.

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