Creating Significant Learning Environments
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Another great video/animation by the RSA Animate folks. Professor Philip Zimbardo explains how our perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.
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Biggest challenge to getting work done at work are M&Ms — Meetings and Managers.
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When it comes to learning we have tried more and we have tried better–now we need to try different. Great sentiment and good video but it doesn’t address how we do the different.
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This youtube video offers a summary of the Truth be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age Project Information Literacy Progress report by Alison Head and Michael Eisenberg. The report deals with college students and their information-seeking strategies and research difficulties, including findings from 8,353 survey respondents from college students on 25 campuses distributed across the U.S. in spring of 2010, as part of Project Information Literacy.
Overall, the findings suggest students use an information-seeking and research strategy driven by efficiency and predictability for managing and controlling all of the information available to them on college campuses, though conducting comprehensive research and learning something new is important to most, along with passing the course and the grade received.
Some of the results are not surprising–students reported difficulties getting started with research assignments and determining the nature and scope of what was required of them. Other finding suggest that college students aren’t as information illiterate as many assume. The 36 page report offers valuable information that we can use to inform the development of effective learning environments.
Thanks to Richard Beck for sending this information my way.
The prediction for next year are coming out earlier and earlier. Gartner offers the following top 10 technologies for 2011:
No surprise about the cloud and mobility–can’t have on without the other. About the only surprise in the lot is the Fabric based infrastructure and computers. The fabric idea really doen’t refer to clothing or material but rather an infrastructure that manages resources in an integrated fashion. In plain english this means you will build servers by purchasing pools of processors and memory instead of physically swapping boxes.
