Technowiki / Learning 2 - Activity 1. 1. Learn about the Learning 2.0 program Welcome to the Learning 2.0 program. It's great to have you here! Learning 2.0 is online learning program that encourages staff to learn more about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, society, teachers and students access information and communicate with each other. Over the course of the next two terms, this website will highlight 10 activities to help staff become familiar with blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites. To familiarise yourself with this project, be sure to read the Learning 2.0 page. So fasten your seat belts, grab your mouse and get ready for a discovery adventure… and remember, it's OK to play in the classroom and have fun! 2. These habits, which PLCMC (the creators of Learning 2.0) called the Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners, will provide you with a refresher on what it means to be a lifelong learner.
Alternative Learning Place. Engines for Education - Welcome. Why does engineering/math/science education in the US suck? « Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article... | Main | Two simple words of passion... » Why does engineering/math/science education in the US suck? If you studied math, science, or engineering at a four-year college in the US, much of what you learned is useless, forgotten, or obsolete. All that money, all that time, all that wasted talent. If all we lost were a few years, no big deal. But the really scary part is that we never learned what matters most to true experts in math, science, and engineering. We never really learned how to DO math, science, and engineering.
Toward the end of his life, legendary mathematician Jacques Hadamard asked 100 of the top scientists of his time how they did whatever it was that they did (math, physics, etc.) We are in sooooo much trouble. What experts use to do their work are the things we don't teach. And what do we do to try and improve things? Our educational institutions--at every level--need drastic changes or we're all screwed. Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better. If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. Newcounter knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others’ quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today.
Your quest for knowledge doesn’t have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein’s, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge’s sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal. Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. Health Shake a leg. Balance Sleep on it. Perspective and Focus Change your focus, part 2. Recall Techniques Listen to music. Visual Aids Every picture tells a story. Verbal and Auditory Techniques Stimulate ideas.
Kinesthetic Techniques Write, don’t type.