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Blended Learning - Learning - British Council - Brussels In Belgium we offer a wide variety of free online resources to help you improve your English. We also deliver seminars for teachers and online training courses. Elsewhere on this website you can find out how to learn English in the UK. LearnEnglish Kids LearnEnglish Kids is a website for children who are learning English. LearnEnglish Teens Are you a teenager learning English or are your teenage children studying English? Learn English online The British Council has a wide range of free online resources to help adults, teenagers and children learn English.
elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age December 12, 2004 George Siemens Update (April 5, 2005): I've added a website to explore this concept at www.connectivism.ca Introduction Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. Learners as little as forty years ago would complete the required schooling and enter a career that would often last a lifetime. “One of the most persuasive factors is the shrinking half-life of knowledge. Some significant trends in learning: Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime. Background Driscoll (2000) defines learning as “a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world” (p.11). Driscoll (2000, p14-17) explores some of the complexities of defining learning. Conclusion:
Moving beyond self-directed learning: Network-directed learning This site has been created to foster discussion on how our thinking, learning, and organizational activities are impacted through technology and societal changes. Since the original publication of Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, I've been approached by many people requesting additional thinking and discussion. Four tools are available to provide dialogue: Blog for my personal reflective thoughtsWiki for collaborative content creationDiscussion forums for discussion on issues impacted by a connectivist view of learningEmail list for discussions on technology, networks and learning Most resources on this site are intended for public viewing, but contributing to the wiki or discussion forums requires registration. Please create your account by clicking the "join" text on the top, right-hand corner. If you are interested in general learning and technology trends, please visit my elearnspace site.
What Does Connectivism Mean for Education? The theory of Connectivism provides new insight into what it means to facilitate learning in the 21st Century. Those responsible for teaching and training need to incorporate instructional strategies that match learner expectations and the physical changes that technology has wrought on the human brain. This is an ongoing challenge and one that does not have a single right answer or pre-packaged solution. The application of Connectivism to teaching and learning requires a thorough rethinking of the educational process and the role of the teacher, student, and technology in that process. Siemens has done a good job laying out the core principles of Connectivism in his 2004 piece, "Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age." This learning theory is so new and revolutionary that there is little written about it.
Computer Systems Analysts Analysts create diagrams to help programmers and architects build computer systems. Computer systems analysts study an organization’s current computer systems and procedures and design information systems solutions to help the organization operate more efficiently and effectively. They bring business and information technology (IT) together by understanding the needs and limitations of both. Duties Computer systems analysts typically do the following: Computer systems analysts use a variety of techniques to design computer systems such as data-modeling, which create rules for the computer to follow when presenting data, thereby allowing analysts to make faster decisions. Analysts calculate requirements for how much memory and speed the computer system needs. Most computer systems analysts specialize in certain types of computer systems that are specific to the organization they work with. Software quality assurance (QA) analysts do in-depth testing of the systems they design.
¿Qué es el Conectivismo?: Teoría del Aprendizaje Para la Era Digital El Conectivismo es una teoría del aprendizaje promovido por Stephen Downes y George Siemens. Llamada la teoría del aprendizaje para la era digital, se trata de explicar el aprendizaje complejo en un mundo social digital en rápida evolución. En nuestro mundo tecnológico y en red, los educadores deben considerar la obra de los pensadores como Siemens y Downes. Los alumnos reconocen e interpretan las pautas y se ven influenciados por la diversidad de las redes, la fuerza de los lazos y su contexto. La nueva información adquirida lo está siendo continuamente. (Conectivismo: Una teoría del aprendizaje para la era digital) Según Siemens, el aprendizaje ya no es una actividad individualista. Para leer más, ver los blogs de Siemens: elearnspace y Connectivism, y la web de Stephen Downes. En el año 2010 un informe de Cisco llamado “La Sociedad del Aprendizaje” (The Learning Society), los autores señalan que los sistemas educativos necesitan pasar a convertirse en una sociedad del aprendizaje.
Rhizomatic Learning For several years now, I have been considering how the rhizome might function as a metaphor for learning and a model for education. I tend to agree with Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2002) who in writing about the tree as the long standing metaphor for knowledge and learning said, “We’re tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They’ve made us suffer too much" (p. 15). In their stead, Deleuze and Guattari offer the rhizome. A month ago, my friend Jane, a professor at a Connecticut University posted this definition of rhizome: The rhizome is a tangle of tubers with no apparent beginning or end. So today as Scott Klepesch, Deb Gottsleben and I were visiting English teachers, Cathy Stutzman and Meg Donhauser and librarians Heather Hersey and Marci Zane from Hunterdon Central Regional High School (HCRHS) in NJ, I began to see what the rhizomatic classroom might resemble. Meg’s class is run like a choose-your-own British literature adventure!
Why Connected Learning? - Connected Learning Alliance Connected learning is when someone is pursuing a personal interest with the support of peers, mentors and caring adults, and in ways that open up opportunities for them. It is a fundamentally different mode of learning than education centered on fixed subjects, one-to-many instruction, and standardized testing. The research is clear. Connected Learners Connected learners have a web of relationships and organizations that support their learning, beyond the formal educational pipeline. Why Connected Learning? Traditional education is failing to engage many students as they enter their middle school, high school, and college years. While wealthy families are embracing the potential of new technologies for learning, and investing more and more in out-of-school and connected learning, less privileged kids are being left behind. Connected Learning in Practice Graphic by Nat Soti. Principles of Connected Learning Interests foster the drive to gain knowledge and expertise. What's New
Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate Training (9780761924036): Kjell Erik Rudestam, Judith Schoenholtz-Read 5 Minute Librarian: Social Media This week, we invite all library Instagram accounts to participate in our October Challenge: 31 Days of Instagram! I have a confession: I have a very sad library Instagram account. I know I should be posting daily (some stats say twice a day), but making the time to take photos, find relevant/popular hashtags, and posting them when teens get out of school -- it was overwhelming. So, this challenge is for those who are in the same boat and those who want to learn how to use Instagram in the most painless way possible. Sound good? NOTE: Any hashtag in red needs to be specific. 1. First, find your city's/town's most popular hashtag. Now, take a photo of your library (any part of it or room, or the whole building) and post it. Hashtags to use: #citystate #libraryname #librariesofinstagram #5minlibchallenge 2. Sign-up for an Instagram scheduler and post a staff shelfie. 3. Download a program for statistics and reposting (it is like sharing on Facebook and retweeting on Twitter) possibilities.
New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies', Ariadne Issue 56 In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop 'schema' or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer. The Tension between Web 2.0 and Education So my primary interest is to focus on the educational aspects of new technologies and in particular what might be appropriate 'schema' for describing the ways in which technologies are being used. Realigning New Technologies to Pedagogy A Pedagogical Framework for Mapping Tools in Use
Why Every Leader Needs a PLN The concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) has been around for a couple of years now. Educators who have embraced this concept have experienced firsthand the positive impact on professional practice that being a connected educator brings. The premise is relatively simple. Carve out a little time each day (15 – 30 minutes) and use one of many available free tools to learn. It is less about the specific tool that is used for the foundation of a PLN and more about the relationships, engagement, and new knowledge that result. Image credit: Harold Jarche Leadership is a choice and not one that should be made lightly.