This lesson describes how we can use Slime Mold to describe Networked Learning and apply that description to Classroom structure.
Networked Learning
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Successful Communities are built on Continuous Improvement, Collective Responsibility, and Goal Alignment.
This lesson describes why Successful Communities are “Learning Communities.” And describes why a commitment to continuous improvement, the development of collective responsibility, and focusing on goal alignment are so important in building a successful learning community.
21st Century Learning Organizations
A discussion of “Learning Organizations” and how to create them.
21st Century Skills to Master
This lesson describes the 21st Century Skills to Master in order to thrive today in our hyper-connected digital World.
Lifelong Learning
Lifelong learning is needed because we cannot learn the skills needed for tomorrow in the static classrooms of today.
Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning We examine the formation of signaling conventions in a framework of a multi-agent reinforcement learning model. Introducing a population renewal algorithm, which in the presence of superlinear reinforcement, considerably enhances formation of...
The Future of Education is Streamed Media
In the past, I used to buy music on vinyl records. I would put them on a "turntable" and play them. Now I buy music subscription services and stream my music. In the past, I used to buy news from newspapers and magazines. Now I buy news subscription services and...
eLearning Trends
Training remote learners and driving performance gain over distance is the new reality. With an increase in work from home, it has led to a need to have an Agile and Flexible Digital Workplace. Organizations need to create a digital workplace that can easily move from...
21st Century Learning Styles
This lesson suggests that the most important 21st Century Learning Style to emerge is a “Network-of-Teams.” The 21st Century offers more opportunities to embrace more learning styles than ever before.
Mimeo Report on the State of Learning and Development
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The Structure of Virtual Learning Communities
The Structure of Virtual Learning Communities Abstract—Virtual learning communities(VLCs) are an effective way for people to conduct online education. This paper analyzes the basic characteristics of virtual learning community from three dimensions: technology,...
Deep Learning – The Next Big Educational Thing
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Abstract Deep learning is driving rapid innovations in artificial intelligence and influencing massive disruptions across all industries. This is the beginning of my effort to see if Deep Learning will...
Educational Blockchains are Catching On
Educational Blockchains are Catching On Blockchain is advancing in higher education, as it is in all of society, with some interesting new applications and ramifications. The origins of "Blockchains" stem from the need to track packets as they move through the network...
Obstacles to Learning
Obstacles to Learning Noise as a Fundamental Obstacle to Learning Let me go on record and acknowledge that I truly understand that while getting good enough information for learning is fairly easy, getting the “BEST” information for learning is not so easy. The reason...
Reasons to Invest in Communication Training
Communication can be simply defined as, "The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else." http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communication...
What 21st Century Work Requires of 21st Century Education
An Analysis of a 1991 US Labor Dept Report called, “What Work Requires.” This report is evidence to Support my Learning Community Architecture.
How to Encourage Responsible and Meaningful Engagement in Public Discourse
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of -CLARENCE D ARROW To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know. That is true knowledge. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have met the enemy and he is us. -WALT KELLY'S "PoGo"...
Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport
I came across a old presentation with the title, "Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport." So a brief search provided a lot of great information. This is particularly important as I am building a Learning Management System LMS. Here are some of the things I found out: Free...
Atlantis Learning Community Executive Summary
Atlantis Learning Community Executive Summary Initiative Provide the best flexible, lifelong learning platform through the use of 21st Century technologies. Mission Encourage collaboration Facilitate interoperability Promote best practices for using distributed...
Why and How to Develop a Skills Learning Plan
Lesson on developing a Skills Learning Plan. And suggestions on what factors you need to consider in developing your Skills Learning Plan. (Updated Jan 26, 2023)
3 Ways Learning will Change
3 Ways Learning Will Change This is my periodic visit to the the question: What will learning look like in the future. We will continue to see big changes in both learners and learning environments. The key driver, The Digital Revolution. With omnipresent internet...
5 Things About How We Learn That You Have to Unlearn to Succeed
In order to succeed in the 21st Century there are some important things you need to understand about how we learn. Throughout history, education has been about teaching the next generation to do what the previous generation wants them to do. Here are 5 things you have...
Learning Community Learning Platform
Learning Community Learning Platform Key Drivers: Personalized Learning Plans and Micro-Learning!
Giving Away Knowledge for Free and Only Charging for Knowledge Assessment Is An Online Learning Model Validated by Latest Coursera Moves
A recent move by Coursera, one of the largest Online education providers, validates a new online learning model where knowledge is given away for free, but assessment is paid for. The answer is to separate Knowledge acquisition from knowledge assessment. Essentially...
5 Things We Should Do in 2016 to Make Our Community Better!
There are 5 things we should do in 2016 to make our community better! We should listen more and preach less. We should build more opportunities to learn from each other,. We should tap into our seniors to provide them an opportunity to be more productive. We should...
The 2 Most Important Things we Always Need to Learn to Be Successful
The two most important things we always need to learn to be successful are: 1) how to use the tools available to us, and 2) how to use our minds to best use the tools. And the important reality is that while the tools we need to learn to be successful change all the...
5 Ways Technology Can and Should Be used to Improve Education
Here are 5 ways Technology Can and Should be used to improve education. Technology has always been a powerful tool in learning. The earliest learning technology, writing, transformed learning from just the memorization of stories told by a few near-by elders, to the...
Micro-Credentials! The 21st Century Educational Goal!
Prior to the domestication of the electron, we had to go to "bricks and mortar" buildings and campuses to learn. But, today, you don't have to leave your desk to have virtually unlimited learning options available to you. Unfortunately, our existing industrialized...
3 Fundmental Functions of Education in the Community
There are 3 fundamental functions of education in every community: 1) Discover new knowledge, 2) Teach skills the community needs to thrive, and 3) Provide an opportunity for personal growth and enrichment. The great thing is that these three functions are intimately...
10 Blended Learning Trends
Blended Learning is learning that combines analog and digital, asynchronous and synchronous, mobile and fixed (Physical School), and electronic and human. Blended learning is the 21st Century way to learn!
7 Education Websites that Demonstrate the Power of 21st Century Learning Communities
The instant we domesticated the electron we gave to educators the power to transform 18th Century paper based teacher centered education into 21st Century learning tools. EdTech is what we call this electronic Education Technology. And the world over smart people...
7 Principles of Success from SAP CEO Bill McDermott and What I learned from it!
In his new book Winners Dream: A Journey From Corner Store to Corner Office, SAP CEO Bill McDermott offers his suggestions for 7 Principles of success. (The full post is below). I have my own 7 principles for success. Let me see how well they align. My view is...
Gallup Study found reasons for our failing Education Systems. I Completely Agree with their findings!
A recent Gallup Study gathered some data that pointed to the reasons for our failing Education. Gallup found that those educational institutions that make intentional efforts to embrace the fundamentals of human development will thrive, others will fail badly. While...
5 Reasons Why Schools Can, and should, be different today and why it is Important
I have been either a student or a teacher for most of my life. The way I've taught all my class is with me standing in front of the class and leading the class though a "curriculum." And in most cases, I find it mind-numbingly boring for both the teachers and...
Basic Education Should be Free!
And the Community should be more than happy to pay for it!
3 Learning Steps
Step one: gain a complete understanding of the natural laws that govern the thing you are trying to learn. Step two: gain a complete understanding of our own capabilities, aptitudes, skills, and talents for the thing you are trying to learn. Step three: implement...
It is all about Information and our Shared Definitions of That Information
Learning Communication Semantics - Glossary - Definitions Syntactics - Grammar - Pragmatics - Learning Communication Social Rules Prosodic - Meta-Communication, Communication about Communication, Para-communication Idiosyncratic - Using all the above to create...
21st Century “Learning Communication Rules” for Teaching and Learning.
Like all communication, Learning Communication is governed by rules, specific to the context of learning. The more the participants of the learning opportunity understand the rules of Learning Communication the more likely the participants will be able benefit from...
2 Strategies for Improving Educational Performance
Take a look at a photo of a classroom from any time in the past. Compared to a typical classroom today, it's hard to see any substantial differences. The reason for this; the classroom is always going to be a slow adaptor to new ideas. Fortunately there are many...
Another Report on Online Education Benefits
Here is a post from NPR that provides some great facts and conclusions about Online Education Benefits and why it is the wave of the future. Report on Online Education in the US Chasing The Elusive 'Quality' In Online Education by ANYA KAMENETZ June 27, 2014 8:03 AM...
The Difficulty to Building Consensus is on clear display with Religion on Wikipedia. But there are solutions. Like Separating Facts and Conclusions, and transparency to the source.
A interesting post from the Religion New Service (RNS) about the "Edit Wars" on the Religious Pages of Wikipedia clearly demonstrate the difficulty to Building Consensus. But, there is a solution. Clearly identify what are facts and what are conclusions. Then...
Atlantis Learning Community Flips the Traditional Educational Models
Traditional Adult Education has it backwards. Today, we start by paying for a class ($2,000+). Then we read the book or listen to the expert. Finally, we take the assessment. This process should be flipped. We should start with a "FREE" high level assessment. Then...
Education for Life might be possible if it is Subscription based, say 2 Wharton Profs. I agree. And I add to that idea.
I agree with two Wharton Professors; education should be Subscription based. That is the best way to stimulate "Education for Life." And I would add that the various levels of subscription should depend on the amount of effort on the part of the Faculty and...
Top 6 Living Skills to Master for 2014 and Beyond
I was cleaning out my email inbox (something I needed to do for a long time) and I came across a report that listed the Top 12 Skills for 2012. It got me thinking what are the top skills one needs to succeed. Using the report as a starting point here is my list....
2 Types of Learning: Learning something new and Learning to Change
Of the two types of learning, learning something new is relatively easy compared to learning to change. There are some surface things you may be able to change, but at the core, change is almost impossible. Use the earth as an example. The "Core" changes rarely,...
It is the Guide on the Side; Not the Sage on the Stage
An Introduction to the School of Open
Every generation since the beginning of human existence has passed its value system, principles, methodologies, and skillsets on to the next generation. This passing on of information within cultures has been followed by the development of a systematic approach to...
Change is Needed in Education
Education is hopelessly antiquated and crippled by 1st Century fears and 18th Century assembly-line work rules. Until the religious, political, and economic stranglehold on the world's school's is broken, there is virtually no hope things will change. Teachers should...
There Should be 2 Tests in a Class. One at the beginning of the Class. The other at the end.
Learning is about growth. Learning is about change. While learning should be about meeting a specific goal, it should be measured more by the amount of change. If the test is given at the beginning of the class and at the end of the class, everyone will have a better...
Education should be about “Constructive or Destructive;” Not about “Liberal or Conservative.”
Education should be about solving problems, not about "liberal or Conservative." Education should be about solving problems and making effective predictions. This means that the goals of education have to be completely changed from forcing conformity to a fixed...
5 Reasons Why Schools Can be Different Today and Why it is Important
I have been either a student or a teacher for most of my life. The traditional teaching model is for the teacher to stand in front of the class and work their way though a "curriculum." And in most cases, I find it mind-numbingly boring for both the teachers and...
21st Century Education Suggestion: Forget an Classroom MBA! Get an “Experience MBA!”
Because of our domestication of the electron in the 1800s and the ultimate implementation of that domestication in the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), we are the first generation that has access to extreme self-education. Proximity to a classroom or a library...
The 15 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Must Learn: Forbes
Forbes | By Steven KotlerPosted: 09/06/2013 3:46 pm EDT In the middle of the economic meltdown that was 2007-2009, James Marshall Reillynoticed a particular new breed of high-minded entrepreneur who, well, didn’t seem to be melting. It was peculiar all right. Not...
10 OpenCourseWare Sites for a Free Education
1. MIT While not the first university to adopt OpenCourseWare (OCW), MIT's initiative started the movement in 2002. Many other universities followed suit. Still one of the best OCW programs out there, MIT offers materials from 2,150 courses in business, engineering,...
Education Secretary: Tech Will Never Replace Great Teachers
nbsp; Everyone wants to hangout with Sal Khan. The popular founder of the innovative Khan Academy is a good person to rub elbows with — even if you're the Obama administration's top education official. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan fielded Khan's questions about...
2 Types of Learning: Learning something new and Learning to Change
Of the two types of learning, learning something new is relatively easy compared to learning to change. Change is very hard. almost impossible.
10 Skills of Confident People
First things first: Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet: It’s a natural expression of ability, expertise, and self-regard. 1. They take...
Because of 21st Technology – Facts are misleading, Everyone is an Expert, and the Smartest person in the Room can be anywhere in the World!
Because of 21st Century Technology the world of Facts and Conclusions have changed. This is based on the Book Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room by by David...
Howard Gardner: Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner initially formulated a list of seven intelligences. His listing was provisional. The first two have been typically valued in schools; the next three are usually associated with the arts; and the final two are what Howard Gardner called ‘personal...
“Singularities” are the Key Challenge in the 21st Century
We know how to build the same widget a billion times over! We know how to do very large stuff really well. We have masters economics of Scale. What we need to learn to do now is the opposite of scaling up; we need to learn to scale down! Dell started it in the 70's...
Is the crowd wiser than a lone genius?
Yes! No! A crowd is not always wiser than a long genius. But, since genius is rare a crowd is often better. A crowd working together could be wiser than a crowd led by an individual. A crowd is not a team, but a team could be a crowd. All things being equal, a team is...
Brookings Institute – Should Everyone Go to College? Answer No!
Should everyone go to college - A new Report from the Brookings Institute Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill Brookings Institute May 2013 Should Everyone go to College? Of course not! "Everyone" should not do "Something." While, we all know that "on average" going to...