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Month: December 2017

Personal Learning Philosophy 2.0

How do you now define learning? Learning is synonymous with interacting with the world around you, and building knowledge and skills through inquiry and collaboration in a world that is becoming increasingly digital. How do you now define teaching? Teaching for me has always been to foster and promote learning and problem solving, I’m glad that hasn’t changed How has your philosophy changed (or not) or been refined? I’ve come to see technology as a tool for building community and collaboration, often overlooked skillsĀ  in the traditional classroom. Group work around a desk is one thinkg, be collaborating and developing…

The Future of Learning

In “The Future of Learning: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age” by Davidson and Goldberg, the authors summarize what our current approaches to digital collaborative learning ought to be. Ten years ago, it was all the rage for schools to display their brand new computer labs, and how valuable a resource those physical machines are to the students’ learning and engagement. Fast forward to the present, where consumer technology has revolutionized how we communicate and go about our everyday lives, educational institutions have struggled to keep pace with how learners engage with each other and with the outside world. It…