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‘The fundamentals of how children learn’ – ePace

On 12/08/2010, in instructional design, K-12 related, learner profiles, learning, learning ecosystem, memory, student teaching/teacher education, teachers, by Daniel Christian

‘The fundamentals of how children learn’ – ePace [from agent4change.net]
Maureen McTaggart explores a new service that helps kids learn and teachers teach

Mary Blake

A simple 45-minute test developed by an ex-teacher helps educators identify the strengths and weaknesses of all their pupils and then transform the way they teach and how those children learn. But the ePace online profiling tool, which will be launched at BETT 2011, is not about creating more record-keeping for teachers, says Mary Blake.

“We are looking at the fundamentals of how children learn rather than what attainment level they are going to get,” she says. “I think it’s an amazing thing for teachers to know but even more so for children because it empowers them to see for themselves how they are learning.”

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The ePace (electronic profile of attainment cognition and efficiency) test evaluates 11 critical areas of learning – auditory memory, visual memory, listening skills, emotional control, decision making, focus, hand-eye co-ordination, mental speed, timing, literacy and impulsivity – and any child from the age of seven can take it. The support pack includes practical teacher resources and strategies and interactive sharing with students and parents is actively encouraged.

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Graphics (and some videos) that remind me of a learning ecosystem…

On 12/07/2010, in Daniel S. Christian, learning ecosystem, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Below are a group of graphics (and some videos) that remind me of a learning ecosystem…

As seen by Gource:

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Here's what a learning ecosystem looks like to me -- visually speaking

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As seen by 7 years of Flickr commits:

Here's what a learning ecosystem looks like to me -- visually speaking

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Networked-Teacher-Langwitches

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http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/04/21/connecting-colaboracion-kommunikation-across-languages-cultures/.

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Networked Teacher Voicethread -- from Alec Couros

— From
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/799

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http://educationinnovation.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83533a43669e201156fdea139970c-pi

— from
http://educationinnovation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/leveraging-the-networked-teacher-the-professional-networked-learning-collaborative.html

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The university network works in tandem with the cloud

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Going Mobile: Web Self-Service for Students Learn how higher education institutions can embrace the new multi-channel eco-system for student self-service (via Mobile, Social Media, Web)

Mobile self-service

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From DSC:
Clicking the below graphic will launch a (rather large but brief) presentation of what my view of a learning ecosystem is.

Great illustration of my view of a Learning Ecosystem

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David Hopkins’ PLE — as seen on dontwasteyourtime.co.uk

David Hopkins' PLE

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My Personal Learning Environment — from Mark Wigan [UK]

PLE

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Learning is like an ecosystem.

— from http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/3-things-to-consider-when-building-your-e-learning-courses/

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Technology and tomorrow's university

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— from Slide #11 at:
Creating a User-Centric Learning Environment with Campus Pack Personal Learning Spaces by Nancy Rubin

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RWD in the News: ”The Learning Ecosystem” published in CLO Magazine’s December issue

On 12/03/2010, in corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, learning ecosystem, workplace, by Daniel Christian

RWD in the News: ”The Learning Ecosystem” published in CLO Magazine’s December issue.

Excerpt from “The Learning Ecosystem” –by Mal Poulin

The learning ecosystem consists of strategies, methods, processes and tools to enable learning in every aspect of the business OJ; operation. The goal is to yield front-line performance improvements that result in customers who notice and come back for more products and services. Within all effective learning, look to employee behavior for noticeable measures of success:
• Colleagues want to be designated as subject-matter experts and embrace the responsibilities that go along with that designation.
• Learners and front-line performers clamor for the ability to learn and support their own performance.
• Employees head to the collaborative platform as a new watering hole for knowledge and support.

There is no single design for the ideal learning ecosystem. Its architecture is driven by what experts and performers will adopt best and by other factors, including the physical infrastructure deployed: network, real estate, hardware, software and learning assets that are contextual, accessible and measureable. Every learning ecosystem is supported by tools and technologies, but support for tools and technologies requires an effective strategy, a strong and lasting plan for learning and spreading business knowledge. Remember, it is not about the software. It is about what you do with it.

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“Air Play” for learning –> 7 things you should know about “The HyFlex Course Model”

On 11/30/2010, in blended learning, dangers of the status quo, game-changing environment, hybrid learning, learning ecosystem, online learning, by Daniel Christian

7 Things You Should Know About the HyFlex Course Model

11/9/10

Abstract:
HyFlex is a course design model that presents the components of hybrid learning in a flexible course structure that gives students the option of attending sessions in the classroom, participating online, or doing both. Students can change their mode of attendance weekly or by topic, according to need or preference. Models like HyFlex, which present multiple paths through course content, may work well for courses where students arrive with varying levels of expertise or background in the subject matter. Courses built on the HyFlex model help to break down the boundary between the virtual classroom and the physical one. By allowing students access to both platforms, the design encourages discussion threads to move from one platform to the other.

The “7 Things You Should Know About…” series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.

Let's take the best of both worlds -- online learning and face-to-face learning

From DSC:
Sounds like “Air Play” for learning to me! 🙂

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Elliott Masie launches LearningTalks – Free Video Talks on Learning

On 11/23/2010, in 24x7x365 access, adult learning, business, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, digital learning, digital video, learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, online learning, online media, professional development, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

Elliott Masie launches LearningTalks – Free Video Talks on Learning

We are pleased to announce the launch of LearningTalks – a series of short, free, video interviews on learning.  This project of The MASIE Center is modeled after the valuable TED Talks, and begins with the release of over 40 segments from Learning 2010. There are interviews with Apolo Ohno, Marshall Goldsmith, Learning Leaders from JCPenny, Yum! Brands, CNN and Peace Corps and many more.

These 3 to 9 minute learning segments are now live at:
LearningTalks – http://www.learningtalks.com

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Learning Talks from Elliot Masie

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What would an “Air Play”-based learning ecosystem look like?

On 11/22/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, Daniel S. Christian, homeschooling/homeschoolers, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, online learning, tools, by Daniel Christian

What would an "Air-Play"-based learning ecosystem look like?

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Themes for next summer’s New Media Consortium’s (NMC) Conference

On 11/19/2010, in analytics, Augmented Reality (AR), change, dangers of the status quo, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, geography / geology, higher education, immersion, innovation, internet, IT in HE, leadership, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, social learning / networks, staying relevant, strategy, teaching & learning, tools, trends, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

The 2011 NMC Summer Conference includes four themes:

Threads in these themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Emerging uses of mobile devices and applications in any context
  • Highly innovative, successful applications of learning analytics or visual data analysis
  • Uses of augmented reality, geolocation, and gesture-based computing
  • Discipline-specific applications for emerging technologies
  • Challenges and trends in educational technology
  • Projects that employ the Horizon Report or Navigator in any capacity

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  • Challenge-based learning
  • Game-based learning
  • Digital storytelling as a learning strategy
  • Immersive learning environments
  • Open content resources and strategies
  • New media research and scholarship
  • Challenges and trends in new media and learning

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  • Fostering/Supporting/budgeting for innovation
  • Supporting new media scholarship
  • Collaboration as a strategy
  • Learning space design, in all senses of the words
  • Use, creation, and management of open content
  • Experiment and experience; gallery as lab, lab as gallery
  • Challenges and trends related to managing an educational enterprise

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  • Designing for mobile devices in any context
  • Social networking — designing, monitoring, maximizing social tools
  • Experience design
  • Creating augmented reality
  • Creating the next generation of electronic books
  • Optimizing digital workflows
  • Strategies for staying current with new media tools
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Some reflections on Visions 2020.2

On 11/09/2010, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, analytics, Augmented Reality (AR), collaboration, convergence, digital audio, digital learning, digital textbooks, digital video, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, faith, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), immersion, innovation, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, K-12 related, learning agents, learning ecosystem, learning preferences, mathematics, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, online learning, online media, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, religion, simulations, social learning / networks, student-related, technologies for your home, telepresence, tools, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Below are some notes and reflections after reading Visions 2020.2:  Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies — by the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Education, and NetDay

Basic Themes

  • Digital Devices
  • Access to Computers and the Internet
  • Intelligent Tutor/Helper
  • Ways to Learn and Complete School Work Using Technology

Several recurring words jumped off the page at me, including:

  • Voice activation
  • A rugged, mobile, lightweight, all-convergent communications and entertainment device
  • Online classes
  • Interactive textbooks
  • Educational games
  • 3D virtual history enactments — take me there / time machine
  • Intelligent tutors
  • Wireless
  • 24x7x365 access
  • Easy to use
  • Digital platforms for collaborating and working with others on schoolwork/homework
  • Personalized, optimized learning for each student
  • Immersive environments
  • Augmented reality
  • Interactive
  • Multimedia
  • Virtual
  • Simulations
  • Digital diagnostics (i.e. analytics)
  • Wireless videoconferencing

Here are some quotes:

Math and reading were often cited specifically as subjects that might benefit from the use of learning technologies. (p. 5)

No concept drew greater interest from the student responders than some sort of an intelligent tutor/helper. Math was the most often mentioned subject for which tutoring help was needed. Many students desired such a tutor or helper for use in school and at home. (p. 17)

…tools, tutors, and other specialists to make it possible to continuously adjust the pace, nature and style of the learning process. (p.27)

So many automated processes have been built in for them: inquiry style, learning style, personalized activity selection, multimedia preferences, physical requirements, and favorite hardware devices. If the student is in research mode, natural dialogue inquiry and social filtering tools configure a working environment for asking questions and validating hypotheses. If students like rich multimedia and are working in astronomy, they automatically are connected to the Sky Server which accesses all the telescopic pictures of the stars, introduces an on-line expert talking about the individual constellations, and pulls up a chatting environment with other students who are looking at the same environment. (p.28)

— Randy Hinrichs | Research Manager for Learning Science and Technology | Microsoft Research Group

From DSC:
As I was thinking about the section on the intelligent tutor/helper…I thought, “You know…this isn’t just for educators. Pastors and youth group leaders out there should take note of what students were asking for here.”

  • Help, I need somebody
  • Help me with ____
  • Many students expressed interest in an “answer machine,” through which a student could pose a specific question and the machine would respond with an answer. <– I thought of online, Christian-based mentors here, available 24x7x365 to help folks along with their spiritual journeys


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Good point to remember in this article…

On 11/03/2010, in change, IT in HE, learning ecosystem, strategy, tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Web 2.0’s Foundation of Sand — from CampusTechnology.com by Trent Batson

From DSC:
Below is the excerpt I want to point out:

The lessons of our experience, and perhaps of the experience of others, is that startups and other initiatives without venture capital that may need to depend on free Web services to get started must at some point move to commercial sites. The Web, where information wants to be free, and which is wildly creative, innovative, vital, and powerful, offers a great ride. But it is also highly transient with Web apps coming and going, metamorphizing, being bought, or not staying current.

From DSC:
The world of IT is very complex right now (with no signs of getting any less complex) — and things are constantly changing. Thus, when building or maintaining one’s learning ecosystem, you WILL experience changes in applications, services, vendors, and features sets. Such things will come and go (think Google Wave for example). Technologies evolve. Change WILL happen. Some services and vendors won’t make it or will be purchased. Count on such things happening, stay flexible, adaptable and responsive; try to make backup plans for each product/service/vendor that you possibly can.




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Agents and multi-agents — most likely a part of our future learning ecosystems

On 10/30/2010, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, computer science, Daniel S. Christian, learning agents, learning ecosystem, programming, by Daniel Christian

Below graphics from:
Introduction to MultiAgent Systems

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Kosmix

On 10/23/2010, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, data related items, innovation, learning agents, learning ecosystem, social learning / networks, social media, by Daniel Christian

Kosmix.com

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Kosmix.com -- Learning Agents

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Check out the Kno for what what’s coming down the pike

On 10/22/2010, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, higher education, interactivity, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, love of learning, media/film, mobile learning, mobile technologies, more voice more choice more control, multi-touch, multimedia, music, new business models, online learning, online media, personalized/customized learning, platforms, podcasting, presentations, publishing, social learning / networks, story, storytelling, student-related, tablets, technologies for your home, telepresence, textbooks, tools, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

The Kno Tablet

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http://kno.com/index.html.

From DSC:
This tablet is larger, which I love! It also offers:

  • Interactivity
  • Multimedia
  • Ability to annotate/save annotations
  • Collaboration and more

Nice!

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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010: Final list, presentation and more

On 10/20/2010, in 21st century, Adobe, Apple, blogs / blogging / vlogging, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, CMS/LMS, collaboration, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-readers, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, higher education, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, platforms, podcasting, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, RSS, social learning / networks, social media, storytelling, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, tools, training / L&D, UK, United States, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010: Final list, presentation and more — from Jane Knight

Yesterday I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list.  Many thanks to the 545 people who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning and contributed to the building of the list.   Although this list is available online, I also created this presentation which provides the information as a slideset – embedded below.

My Photo

Jane Hart, a Social Business Consultant, and founder
of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.

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Check out the topics in this symposium — talk about a game-changing environment!

On 10/19/2010, in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, future, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent tutoring, internet, learning agents, learning ecosystem, multimedia, pace of change, programming, robotics, simulations, telecommunications, trends, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Symposium on Progress in Information and Communication Technology (SPICT’10)

Conference date: 12-13 Dec,2010
Conference venue: The Royale Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
Conference country: Malaysia

SPICT’10 aims to bring together scientists, industry practitioners and students to exchange the latest fundamental advances and trends, and identify emerging research topics in the field of information and communication technology.

Activities:

* Agent & Multi-agent Systems
* Antennas & Propagation
* Artificial Intelligence
* Bioinformatics & Scientific Computing
* Business Intelligence
* Communication Systems and Networks
* Complex Systems: Modeling and Simulation
* Computer Vision
* Database and Application
* Geographical Information Systems
* Grid and Utility Computing
* Image Processing
* Information indexing & retrieval
* Information Systems
* Intelligent Systems
* Internet Technology
* Knowledge Management
* Mobile Communication Services
* Multimedia Technology and Systems
* Natural Language Processing
* Network Management and services
* Ontology and Web Semantic
* Optical Communications and Networks
* Parallel and Distributed Computing
* Pattern Recognition
* Pervasive Computing
* Real-Time and Embedded Systems
* Remote Sensing
* Robotic Technologies
* Security and Cryptography
* Sensor Networks
* Service Computing
* Signal Processing
* Software Engineering
* Strategic Information Systems

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What if we could apply this same concept towards learning?

On 10/18/2010, in analytics, learner profiles, learning agents, learning ecosystem, personalized/customized learning, by Daniel Christian

About IQNOMY

IQNOMY is an S.a.a.S. (Software as a Service) solution which enables any website to adapt itself to each individual visitor in next to no time.

As a result of the emergence of new media, the distance between institutions and individuals is getting ever smaller. Individuals have gained more and more power and are increasingly using this to demand personal attention and recognition. For companies and organizations, the difficulties associated with holding on to today’s critical consumer are therefore growing.

For a long time now, simply supplying information has not been enough. Customers and consumers are looking for an experience that is presented at the right moment and within the right context. We call this Real-time Interaction Marketing. Central to this discipline is the fact that you as an organization are able to get to know and understand your customers and that you actively learn to support them in discovering new and relevant information. This form of personal and direct one-to-one marketing will play an increasingly important role in commercial markets in the future.

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