Essential Question:
What are your thoughts about “learning in the collective”?
Dates to Save:
Thursday 4:30 – 5:30 AKDT – Twitter Focus Session #ETLEAD Hosts: Colin and Tiffany!
Reading:
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Available:http://www.amazon.com/New-Culture-Learning-Cultivating-ebook/dp/B004RZH0BG/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
Chapters Four through Six
Assignment: Continue to analyse your serious games. If you’ve already done five, find some more games, tweet to #gamifi-ED and then review as many as you’d like!
About the Week:
This week, think about the distinction between learning in communities and learning in the collective. Twitter is a very good example of a medium that facilitates learning in the collective. Twitter is only as powerful as our own contributions to the feed – the links we add – the knowledge we share. In this very public space, we create powerful learning experiences for others; however, it’s difficult to gage the impact of these experiences. On the other hand, others may create powerful learning experiences for us and only through our own organization, curation and assimilation of these resources can we see the real power that this medium holds. It is possible that understanding the power of the collective may be key to authentic learning in a social media environment. I’ll be interested in your thoughts about that, and about the residual impact of such public engagement in creation of learning.
Due Friday:
Create your Week Eight Blog, responding to the Essential Question. You should add at least 3 resources from your own research to the blog posting.
Use Twitter to share your blog address with the #ETLEAD community.
Due Sunday:
Comment on the blogs of others.
Create a blog entry outlining the way that you contributed to the learning of others, and the impact of your interaction with others on your learning.
Submit the URL for your Blog Postings to Livetext on Sunday.
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