The long and short of learning:
Web worlds fit microlearning
Thinking out of the box
Learning in small increments is well known to be the best learning practice. It is hard to accommodate in the old-style school system, but can easily fit into a curriculum making use of internet resources, especially those available in a browser. Web-worlds can provide virtual environments for learning in a browser--accessible on a laptop or tablet. These can offer prepared lesson units approved by subject matter experts.
The Empty Classroom
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Web-worlds can be delivered on hand held devices and Chromebooks.
- Microlearning
The box
- Classes in school have to be an hour long.
- Students can only learn by sitting at chair-desks in a classroom.
- Students can only learn from an instructor talking to them.
- Students can only learn when an instructor tells them what they are supposed to know.
- All students learn at the same rate.
- Students demonstrate learning by showing that they remember what they have been told.
- For thinking out of the box, read on.
Distributed practice (also known as spaced repetition or spaced practice) is a learning strategy, where practice is broken up into a number of short sessions – over a longer period of time. Humans and animals learn items in a list more effectively when they are studied in several sessions spread out over a long period of time, rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time, a phenomenon called the spacing effect. The opposite, massed practice, consists of fewer, longer training sessions. It is generally a less effective method of learning. For example, when studying for an exam dispersing your studying more frequently over a larger period of time will result in more effective learning than intense study the night before. --Wikipedia
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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Hypergrid Destinations
- IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- OpenSimWorld Events
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid
- Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
- Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
- Selby's daily events and news collection: Virtual worlds are real
- Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
- Web-world videos
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- Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
- OSCC 2017 PresentationsMal Burns: Inworld Review
- Hypergrid Writer's Community
- Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
- IMA projects
- 3D WEBSITES A2Z
- 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community)
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Virtual Outworlding news collection
- Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
- Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
- WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
- Hypergrid-related articles in this blog
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The mystery of the box
- How did adolescents learn to use the internet?
- Parents didn't teach them. Schools didn't teach them.
- Heresy: Out of the box is a mysterious power that enables youngsters to learn on their own.
- Come to think of it, some adults do that, too.
Self managed learning
- The gamification of learning how to learn. Learn what you can do
- The 7 famous habits of Steven Covey explained in 6 minutes of video
- The key to remembering is to pay attention to what you want to remember. Can you remember that?
- Digital Learning with Simon Nelson. Social, collaborative, self-managed learning
- A community as a library resource? The secret source of the web
- Librarians Share Virtual Communities as Resources--Valerie Hill
- Learning objectives are for the learners. Not just for instructional designers
- Self-managed learning and the role of the online library
- Online libraries as centers for adult instruction. Self-managed learning.
- Self-managed learning and the role of the online library
The mysterious power hiding in plain sight
- We all know what that power is that enables youngsters to learn on their own.
- It works for us too. Simply put, we learn a skill because we want to use it.
Why doesn't that power work in school?
- What skills are they practicing in school?
- OK, some of those skills do have an obvious use.
- But much of the time the skill is:
- demonstrate that you remember what you were told or had to read.
- What job description calls for that skill?
- OK, being a college student does call for that skill, but that's not a job.
- It is not as if reading instructions would make you able to follow them.
- The Secret of the Instruction Manual
- Sure, lots of jobs call for learning on the job.
- And some of those jobs actually call for demonstrating that learning.
- On the job, part of what you need to learn is to fit the right action to the cue.
- The cue is never sitting at a student desk looking at a test.
- And the right action is never to write down what you are supposed to do.
- On the job, the cue will be something that happens on your job.
- And the right action will be doing something about it.
- Mitigating Cyber Security Risk with Scenario-Based Games
Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities. Generally, the term "microlearning" refers to micro-perspectives in the context of learning, education and training. More frequently, the term is used in the domain of e-learning and related fields in the sense of a new paradigmatic perspective on learning processes in mediated environments.
Can project-based learning fit with microlearning?
- A project is big. Nothing micro about it, right?
- Wrong! Anything big is made out of lots of little things.
- If you already know everything about doing the project, there is nothing to learn.
- But with projects designed for learning?
- Project-based learning uses projects that demand new skills.
- Learners can choose how they will learn those new skills.
- If they want to learn in hour chunks, they can.
- If they want to learn in two-hour chunks or ten-minute chunks, they can.
- If they want to fit the chunk size to the learning task, they can.
- All that because the method lets the learners manage their own learning.
Can learners manage their own learning?
- They better get that skill. Or they stop learning when they get out of school.
- In the olden days, maybe people didn't need to learn much after they were grown.
- In these newer days, you must learn as fast as you can just to keep up with the others.
- Because the others already know how to manage their own learning.
- Not all of them, of course. But you won't notice the ones that stopped learning.
- Because they are already left behind, looking for jobs that are vanishing.
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