NextNow Session Links
Rethinking Learning. Join us at the NextNow Collaboratory in Berkeley on March 24 for the debut meeting of Learning Irregulars. Jay Cross, Clark Quinn, Kevin Wheeler and others will explore the evolution of organizational learning. It’s peer-to-peer, real-time, bottom-up, and largely free of curriculum and classrooms. We’ll start at 7:00 pm and end before 10:00 pm.
Background reading to get your wheels turning in advance
What is informal learning? by Jay Cross
The Underground History of American Education. John Taylor Gatto.The Silent Spring of American education.
Seven Principles of Learning, Institute for Research on Learning. “We are all natural lifelong learners. All of us, no exceptions. Learning is a natural part of being human. We all learn what enables us to participate in the communities of practice of which we wish to be a part.”
Learning in the Digital Age by John Seely Brown. “Learning is a remarkably social process. In truth, it occurs not as a response to teaching, but rather as a result of a social framework that fosters learning. Knowledge is inextricably situated in the physical and social context of its acquisition and use.”
Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens. A profound explanation of knowledge in a fast-paced, complex, ever-changing, networked world. This is essence. It’s a new ball game.
eLearning 2.0 by Stephen Downes.
