This piece makes some nice points about the pros and cons of blogs, wikis, and discussion boards in terms of their relative affordances for conversation. Plus, like me, he has issues with the threaded model for discussion boards.
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For several reasons, I have been resisting the temptation to post about Duke’s now-famous decision to give an iPod to every first-year student. To begin with, it’s been covered to death, so I didn’t think that just posting the link was doing a particular service to anyone. Second, others have already written about at least […]
I have been digging more into the subject of informational cascades as I work on editing my submission to eLearn on “emergent learning” (which I’m going to refer to as social learning instead, given the current lack of agreement about what “emergent learning” means). The more I dig, the more excited I get. There’s some […]
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a library of free K-12 resources for math teachers. It’s worth checking out if you have an interest in instructional design regardless of the particular subject or level that you teach. There are some very clever ideas for learning objects here. Plus, you gotta give them credit for […]
Here’s a nice, short piece in Learning Circuits summarizing Sam Adkins’ take on workflow learning. One point of clarification that I found particularly helpful:
How does workflow learning differ from electronic performance support systems (EPSS)? Unlike EPSS, workflow learning
is iterative and evolves as work processes evolve
has a strong bi-directional interaction
has robust measurement, monitoring, and modification feedback […]
