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Just in time learning with Twitter and the death of the Virtual Learning Environment

As ever Twitter demonstrates its ability to deliver ‘just in time’ learning.

I am currently logged into my schools Virtual Learning Environment, attempting to understand how it fits together, what I can do with it, and more importantly, what the kids can do with it. While I was mulling this over the following video came through [...]

November 10th, 2009 | Category: 21st Century Learning, Personal Learning Network (PLN), Social Media, Twitter | Leave a comment

Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom by Alan November

Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom by Alan November from Brian Mull on Vimeo.

In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute, Alan tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community. Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of “student as contributor” and to globalize [...]

September 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: 21st Century Learning | Leave a comment

An introduction to connectivism

Networked Student

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros’ Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their [...]

September 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: 21st Century Learning, Social Media | Leave a comment