Posts Tagged ‘informal learning’
YouTube for informal learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 4, 2009
Here is a good example of informal learning: A man used YouTube to learn how to deliver his son when his wife went into labour prematurely. The learning was situated, meaningful and oh-so-real!
The future of learning?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 24, 2009
If you asked me what the not-too-distant future of learning might look like, I’d say it will comprise a better balance of formal and informal learning.
New pedagogies will take advantage of the way people learn now learn in “information fragments”, e.g., open source style.
For assessment, I hope that e-portfolios become more common for teaching, learning, [...]
Educational Second Life?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 1, 2008
In his blog entry, Anastasia Vesperman (Feldspar Epstein in SL) responded to the same questions that Karl Kapp answered about educational Second Life (SL).
In essence, he reiterated how educators have only just started exploring the possible educational affordances of SL. We don’t really know what is effective and we are still finding out.
However, the study [...]
And the moral of the story is?
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 11, 2008
This video is entitled, The Miniature Earth. Watch this and you might learn something. Each person will probably take home a different message.
For me, it is the concept of multimedia literacy and the power of collaboration. Why?
Imagine having to read the same statistics in a newspaper or a report or a [...]
