by kris | Jul 5, 2017 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Learning Community
PSA imagines a social learning construct that includes all of the following: accountability, structure and support. WeConnect, is an app that connects people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. It can be hard to reach out, but WeConnect makes it easy. People...
by kris | Jul 5, 2017 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Individual Learner
How does recruiting for skills work? Here is a New York times article explaining how to match good jobs with skills and a pathway to the middle class. Mr. Bridges represents a new but promising category in the American labor market: people working in so-called...
by andflywrite | Jul 3, 2017 | BEST LINKS EVER
Web Privacy is getting worse, not better. Using an app like “Little Snitch” can help. But it also reveals hundreds of connections that take place when one first opens a browser application. Apps like Little Snitch monitor, and block, and also asks first if...
by andflywrite | Jul 3, 2017 | BEST LINKS EVER
Going back to the classics, I just reviewed Benjamin Bloom’s (1984) “The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring.” His principle of mastery learning can definitely be applied to today’s new educational...
by andflywrite | Jul 3, 2017 | BEST LINKS EVER
Previous post on SLC speculates about how new perceptions of “space” and of “place” are part of a move out of traditional school buildings, to learning that can happen “anywhere” there’s mobile access. And which...
by andflywrite | Jul 1, 2017 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER, Learning Community
PSA uses the phrase “Social Learning Construct” (SLC) to describe an online learning community. An SLC is a type of community that is constructed to enable online and blended learning and which involves a series of “required” aspects. Today,...
