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Howard Rheingold University Course -- Notes and resources

Collaborative Versus Cooperative Learning - A comparison of the Two Concepts helps understand the underlying nature of interactive learning - Ted Panitz []

From Research to Practice: The Instructional Design of Online Collaborative Learning, Laurie Posey, EdD - George Washington University - Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning 2009 []

Process Guide Learning 0 POGIL Instructor's Guide - downloaded on computer under Rheingold University. Video and authoring handbook available at link []

Five Key ideas about learning have emerged from current research in cognitive sciences. People learn by:
 * constructing their own understanding based on their prior knowledge, experiences, skills, attitudes, and beliefs.
 * following a learning cycle of exploration, concept formation, and application.
 * connecting visualizing concepts, and multiple representations.
 * discussing and interacting with others.
 * reflecting on progress and assessing performance

Enquiring Minds - The Guide: [|www.enquiringminds.org/uk/guide]

A Portal to Media Literacy - Michael Wesch [|www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s]

from Rheingold's page... "//Each of us will be required to work differently than we usually do. Most courses focus on the delivery by a teacher of a specific body of knowledge to students, who are held accountable as individuals for retaining and comprehending that knowledge. In this learning community, we're going to be inquiring and reflecting more than delivering and memorizing, and we're going to be thinking, discussing, learning, as a group as well as learning individually--we're going to be both cooperative (working together on projects) and collaborative (co-responsible for each other's learning).//

//From: []// //Infotention is a word I came up iwth to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters.//
 * //Honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knoweldgeably.//
 * Knowing how to put together intelligence dashboards, news radars, and information filters from online tools like persistent search and RSS is the external technical component of information literacy.