Social learning theory. Social Learning Theory from notes on Ormond's Human Learning [ref: Ormrod, J.E. (1999). Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.] Social learning theory focuses on the learning that occurs within a social context . It considers that people learn from one another, including such concepts as observational learning, imitation, and modeling. Among others Albert Bandura is considered the leading proponent of this theory. General principles of social learning theory follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. How the environment reinforces and punishes modeling: People are often reinforced for modeling the behavior of others . 1, The observer is reinforced by the model . 2. 3. 4.
Contemporary social learning perspective of reinforcement and punishment: 1. 2. 3. Cognitive factors in social learning: Social learning theory has cognitive factors as well as behaviorist factors (actually operant factors). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Behaviors that can be learned through modeling: 1. 2. 3. 4. Self efficacy: The Secret of Life from Steve Jobs in 46 Seconds. Steve Jobs on Why Computers Are Like a Bicycle for the Mind (1990) A Smartphone Can Be a Ticket to Ride. The Next Web - International technology news, business & culture. Dimension and Euler Characteristics of Graphs. Be Like Mark: 8 Ways To Emulate Facebook's Zuckerberg, The Unlikely Leader. Whether you love him, hate him, or are just a little jealous of his newly minted multi-billionaire status, you have to admit that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has made some visionary leadership moves.
In less than 10 years, Zuckerberg’s taken an idea for an online social network from his Harvard dorm room and delivered it into the homes, offices, pockets, and purses (via mobile phones) of 845 million users around the world. Last year, more than half of Facebook’s users logged in every single day, spending a whopping 4 hours and 35 minutes posting, reading updates, and “liking” more than 2 billion posts a day. And how many CEOs anywhere in the world can say the company they founded before they were old enough to drink generated a net income of $1 billion in 2011 on revenue of $3.7 billion, up from $606 million on revenues of $1.97 billion in 2010?
Zuckerberg’s had his share of growing pains, too, but he’s held fast to Facebook’s helm as well as its stock. Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog. STEVEN JOHNSON & KEVIN KELLY in conversation with Robert Krulwich. In a world of rapidly accelerating change, from iPads to eBooks to genetic mapping to MagLev trains, we can't help but wonder if technology is our servant or our master, and whether it is taking us in a healthy direction as a society. What forces drive the steady march of innovation? How can we build environments in our schools, our businesses, and in our private lives that encourage the creation of new ideas--ideas that build on the new technology platforms in socially responsible ways? Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson will look at where technology is taking us. One of the co-founders of Wired Magazine, Kelly's new book, What Technology Wants, makes the argument that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies.
KEVIN KELLY is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. Previously, he was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review. The Rise of the Toilet Texter. We know where some of you are reading this. A recently released survey of the mobile phone habits of Americans, going where few other surveys care to go, has found that 75 percent of the populace have used their mobile devices while on the toilet. Among those aged 28 to 35, the figure is 91 percent. The survey of 1,000 people by the marketing agency 11mark found that private contemplation has given way to toilet-time talking, texting, shopping, using apps, or just surfing the Web, by both sexes and most ages.
Among those 65 and older, however, only 47 percent have used their mobile devices on the toilet. Chip Litherland for The New York TimesTexting, though, is fine. It gets weirder. Hope you are sitting down for this: 20 percent of males have at one time joined a conference call from the toilet. This is, in a sense, a testimony to our collective passion for communication and contact over all other needs, and a lesson in how quickly ideas of decorum adjust to the times.
Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,[2] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.[3][4][5][6][7] Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[8] He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[9] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.[10][11] Early life Career Current work Awards and honours Personal life.
The Filter Bubble: How the Web Gives Us What We Want, and That's Not a Good Thing. By Maria Popova How the web gives us what we want to see, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Most of us are aware that our web experience is somewhat customized by our browsing history, social graph and other factors. But this sort of information-tailoring takes place on a much more sophisticated, deeper and far-reaching level than we dare suspect. (Did you know that Google takes into account 57 individual data points before serving you the results you searched for?)
That’s exactly what Eli Pariser, founder of public policy advocacy group MoveOn.org, explores in his fascinating and, depending on where you fall on the privacy spectrum, potentially unsettling new book, The Filter Bubble — a compelling deep-dive into the invisible algorithmic editing on the web, a world where we’re being shown more of what algorithms think we want to see and less of what we should see.
I met Eli in March at TED, where he introduced the concepts from the book in one of this year’s best TED talks. Inspired by Abundance - by Jason Silva. Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from. Steven Johnson: The Web and the city. What happens when everyone and everything becomes connected? « Ponoko – Blog | the internet of things, open data and the city. 15 Big Ways The Internet Is Changing Our Brain | Online College Tips – Online Colleges | more learning.
If you don’t have a PLN, you don’t know what you’re missing!! « NovaNews. Recently I was asked to write an article for an upcoming edition of Connections, a quarterly newsletter produced by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS), a business unit of Education Services Australia. Aiming to provide informative and useful material relevant to school libraries which helps keep library professionals up to date, Connections is distributed to all schools in Australia in both hard copy and digital formats. I was asked to write specifically about Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) both from a general and personal perspective.
I found the process of putting my thoughts together both challenging and inspiring. Not all that long ago, I had never heard of PLNs. Today, I feel part of an amazing community and am unable to comprehend how I could be where I am today without the support and guidance of those in my PLN. I extend my thanks and gratitude to you all! Just recently I had the most thrilling experience! I met – in person – some members of my PLN!! “So what?” The Filter Bubble: How the Web Gives Us What We Want, and That's Not a Good Thing. What happens when everyone and everything becomes connected? These are the beginnings of some exciting times indeed This short film explores how connectivity is changing our lives in ways never before imagined. Through conversations with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud, we learn that there may be greater changes in the next ten years than in all of the past half-century.
“…when the light bulb was the big thing and they dug up all of NY just to be able to put light bulbs in the houses, they didn’t really see the extension of light bulbs – that you could have other electrical appliances.We are at the light bulb stage of the Internet.” It’s well worth setting aside 20 minutes to watch, absorb and be inspired. via Sugru. On the Brink. Parents break age rule to help kids join Facebook | more learning.