A while ago, I wrote about a generative learning framework proposed by Logan Fiorella in Making Sense of Generative Learning. Logan’s framework focuses on how learners actively construct knowledge by integrating new information with what they already know. Remember schema theory? That’s the cognitive framework where our brains organize knowledge into networks called schemas,…
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Top 10 List of Tools for Learning – 2011
Jane Hart is in her fifth year of coordinating what is possible the best list of tools used for learning. The emerging list is amazing. This is my list of tools that I find the most value in. Some I value because I learn so much by using the tool and some because I have…
A Case for Collaborative Technology – What Klaatu Didn’t Say
Limits to growth but no limits to learning Close to 40 years ago the Club of Rome published a report called Limits to Growth. In it they described the global problematique due in part to the physical limitations of our small and interconnected world. In a nutshell they said that we live on a…
Do you have a personal cyberinfrastructure?
It’s week one of Jim Groom’s MOOC Digital Storytelling also known as #ds106 and I find myself reflecting on the difference between being creative and being innovative and how that difference is what intimidates me about this course. Above is a wordle of one part of the first assignment which was to read Gardner Campbell’s…