What did you learn about learning in 2008?
If you are a blogger, I would highly recommend taking this as an opportunity to go back through your blog posts over the year and looking for any "aha moments" or highlight the posts that you think were the best/most interesting.
You might want to look back at some discussions going on during the last two yearly recaps:
January's Topic:
Predictions for learning in 2009
How to Respond:
Option 1 - Simply put your thoughts in a comment below.
Option 2 -
Step 1 - Post in your blog (please link to this post).
Step 2 - Put a comment in this blog with an HTML ready link that I can simply copy and paste (an HTML anchor tag). I will only copy and past, thus, I would also recommend you include your NAME immediately before your link. So, it should look like:
Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0
or you could also include your blog name with something like:
Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0 : eLearningTechnology
Posts so far (and read comments as well):
You might want to look back at some discussions going on during the last two yearly recaps:
- 2007 - What Did You Learn about Learning?
- 2006 - Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future Predictions.
January's Topic:
Predictions for learning in 2009
How to Respond:
Option 1 - Simply put your thoughts in a comment below.
Option 2 -
Step 1 - Post in your blog (please link to this post).
Step 2 - Put a comment in this blog with an HTML ready link that I can simply copy and paste (an HTML anchor tag). I will only copy and past, thus, I would also recommend you include your NAME immediately before your link. So, it should look like:
Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0
or you could also include your blog name with something like:
Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0 : eLearningTechnology
Posts so far (and read comments as well):
- Jeff Goldman - What I have Learned
- Michael Hanley - A Year in E-Learning: One Blog’s Progress
- http://learningjournal.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/musings-toward-new-years-resolutions/
- Tony Karrer - 2008 2009
- Clark Quinn - What did I learn about learning in 2008?
- Ken Allan - The Baby, The Bath and The Bathwater
- Karyn Romeis - Oh dear, the dread annual question!
- Jason Allen - Nurtured Chaos
- Ken Allan - Having Saved the Baby
- Ignatia/Inge de Waard - My two cents of learning during the last year.
- Rupa - http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2008/12/08/what-i-learnt-in-2008/
- Katie Christo - What have I learned about learning in 2008?
- Virginia Yonkers: Connecting 2 the World
- Erin Murphy - What did I learn about learning in 2008
- Adventures in Corporate Education - Big Question: What did you learn in 2008
- John Zurovchak - Long Tail Learning:The Big Question December 2008
- Ellen at the aLearning Blog
- Taruna Goel - Learning About Learning in 2008
- Kevin Marsh - http://storycurve.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-i-learned-in-2008.html
- Kevin Thorn - 5 Things I learned in 2008
- Kerry... what I've learned
- Manish Mohan - What I learned in 2008
- Karl Kapp - New Learning
- Clive Shepherd
- Christy Tucker: What I Learned This Year
- Geetha Krishnan: 2008: Low on Learning
- Ingrid O'Sullivan - What did I learn in 2008? Lots..
Jeff Goldman - What I have Learned
ReplyDeleteWell now there's a coincidence... I celebrated The E-learning Curve Blog's first anniversary recently, and I reflected on this topic, including my Top 10 Posts for 2008.
ReplyDeleteTopic that received most reaction?
- Economic downturn and the challenge to e-learning
Post that was most fun to write?
- E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: A Salutary Lesson
Michael Hanley - A Year in E-Learning: One Blog’s Progress
I, too, was a day ahead of you on this topic... here's a link to my post, which was as much a look ahead as a look back.
ReplyDeletehttp://learningjournal.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/musings-toward-new-years-resolutions/
I learned several things! Too many that I can't recall them all.
ReplyDeletei would say elearning is more within the reach of the learning community now. Previously, all the talk seemed a little far fetched and technical, with "e-learning systems" costing thousands of dollars being implemented by some obscure university technical committee.
ReplyDeletenow however, there are some very practicable tools, and priced in such a way, that a group of students and their teacher, or a class can get togather and start gaining from technology. For example in my class we used a web based collaboration software called HyperOffice for setting up a "virtual learning space", which we can set up near instantly. this is a place where we can store and share documents and files related to our class, upload homework, put up class schedules and events, put up announcements, assignments and notifications, have discussions on forums, conduct class surveys etc. and the main thing is, anyone who knows the net can use it.
Clark Quinn - What did I learn about learning in 2008?.
ReplyDeleteThe Baby, The Bath and The Bathwater
ReplyDeleteKaryn Romeis - Oh dear, the dread annual question!
ReplyDeleteOh My. Jason Allen - Nurtured Chaos
ReplyDeleteHaving Saved the Baby
ReplyDeleteDamon Regan - Reflecting on 2008
ReplyDeleteIgnatia/Inge de Waard - My two cents of learning during the last year.
ReplyDeleteHere is my response:http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2008/12/08/what-i-learnt-in-2008/
ReplyDeleteregards
Rupa
Katie Christo - What have I learned about learning in 2008?
ReplyDeleteVirginia Yonkers: Connecting 2 the World
ReplyDeleteErin Murphy - What did I learn about learning in 2008
ReplyDeleteAdventures in Corporate Education - Big Question: What did you learn in 2008
ReplyDeleteJohn Zurovchak - Long Tail Learning:The Big Question December 2008
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ReplyDeleteWhat did I learn in 2008? Something Clark wrote:
ReplyDelete"I saw several recurrent threads, but the strongest one is on learning to learn" hit home for me.
At Coggno.com I've come to realize that when it comes down to it, all learning is done by oneself. Parents and teachers can help, but it's ultimately up to each learner. As all teachers know, a student can be physically present in a classroom without actually absorbing any information.
The most successful students are stamped by their peers as "over-achievers," just like they were when I was in school. What did someone with this label do to warrant so much envy and bewilderment? What motivated "over-achievers" to go above and beyond the rest in their absorption of material and willingness to go the extra mile?
Contrary to our misconceptions, it wasn't that these students were particularly brilliant or that some Harvard gene swam in their blood. "Over-achievers" understand a simple concept: you are the teacher, rather than the recipient of learning content, in your own educational experience. And in your life.
Somewhere along the way, the "over-achiever" realizes that he or she isn't merely the machine, but the one designing, driving, and tuning the car.
Anna - I know what you mean about growing up during a time when there was somewhat a negative perception of being a smart kid.
ReplyDeleteHowever, my perception based only on a very small sampling (my kids and their friends; and students when I was teaching) is that this is quite different. Maybe it's just in our town, but most kids very much look up to the smart kids. Even with the culture of "everyone is a winner" - the kids figure out who they think is smart.
I do not see the "over-achiever" stigma nearly as much. Are you really still seeing that?
Tony, you have a good point. The "over-achiever" students are doing much, much better these days---especially if their social skills are developed too---and you may be right that the stigma has vanished. "Geek chic" hadn't been born yet when I was in school. There are still exceptional students who don't do well socially, but that has to do with their lack of social skills, not with their braininess.
ReplyDeleteBut the idea I wanted to get across is that a lot of these students, like the ones I knew destined for Tufts and Harvard, were more hard workers than they were brilliant minds. It was an attitude they had about school, rather than a natural knack for it, that was different. These students had healthy relationships with teachers, whom they treated like professional peers--respectfully, but with the consciousness that they were there to aid them in their learning experience, not as authority figures.
Kids in traditional school systems--though I think it's changing these days--still often feel like they're plugged into a system that they have little control over. And that produces poor results in their performance. We should be helping students develop a bigger perspective, and an understanding that they're in charge of their own lives and their understanding of the world.
Unfortunately, this is about the hardest task any educator (or parent) faces--trying to convey to kids and teens that though certain behaviors are unacceptable, they're in control, and though they should probably do what they're told in school, they have a choice. If a student can truly understand this, however, I think it changes everything for that student.
Ellen at the aLearning Blog
ReplyDeleteTaruna Goel -
ReplyDeleteLearning About Learning in 2008
Kevin Marsh learnt this in 2008 http://storycurve.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-i-learned-in-2008.html
ReplyDelete5 Things I learned in 2008.
ReplyDeleteI learned about education, and what a bunch of education startups are working on. Recently, I met virtually with people at eduFire, TeachStreet, Cramster, and more at the last virtual eduConference. It's great to see what everyone else is doing, and where the future of education is heading!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely I learned many things... Too many that I can't remember it all.
ReplyDeleteInformixx - there's value in going back and doing at least some level of inventory of what you learned. Or taken another way, that's a cop out. :)
ReplyDeleteKerry... what I've learned
ReplyDeleteRene Meijer - My learning disabilities
ReplyDeleteThere are many things which I learned throughout this year.
ReplyDeleteManish Mohan - What I learned in 2008
ReplyDeleteClive Shepherd: http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2008/12/big-question-what-did-you-learn-about.html
ReplyDeleteHey, I didn't want Clive to have to be the last one posting. :)
ReplyDeleteChristy Tucker: What I Learned This Year
Geetha Krishnan: 2008: Low on Learning
ReplyDeleteIngrid O'Sullivan - What did I learn in 2008? Lots..
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