additional learning & lecture seminar series 1

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Community Challenge 2012-13

Additional Learning Lecture and Seminar Series at UCBC (Number 1)

Community as curriculum

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Recap on aspects of the project’s research methods

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delicious prezi twitter

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Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet

The goal of education

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“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. Education is about teaching students, not subjects.”

– Dave Truss

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

“Delicious is like a virtual fieldtrip through a library built by the recommendations of others.”

– Chris Sessums

Social tagging

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‘New’ learners are...• more self-directed• better equipped to capture information• more reliant on feedback from peers• more inclined to collaborate• more oriented toward being their own “nodes of production”.

Education Trends | Featured NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

Employability?

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UCBC ‘Community Challenge’ Research Group 2012 (Thanks to Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University for the majority of these slides – see slideshare for further information)