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=// Creating a Culture of Learning //=

// Peter Skillen & Brenda Sherry of ECOO for OTF Summer Camp 2010 //
**// Welcome to this resource to support teachers in creating a culture of learning in this new era of social media. //**


 * **//Learning is social.//**


 * **//People learn best when passionate and when in control.//**


 * **//There are often significant differences between 'learning in school' and 'learning out of school'.//**


 * **//Formal and informal learning spaces are merging.//**


 * **//The current methods of and teaching are not sufficient for the third millennium.//**


 * **//"...the unrelenting velocity of change means that many of our skills have a shorter shelf life, suggesting that much of our learning will need to take place outside of traditional school and university environments." (John Seely Brown -//** **//__Opening Up Education -__//** **//__The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge__)//**


 * **//"Web 2.0 has blurred the line between producers and consumers of content and has shifted attention from access to information toward access to other people." (J.S. Brown)//**


 * **//Social networking sites are allowing people to form groups with shared interests and to collaborate to learn and create.//**


 * **//Social learning involves not just 'learning about' the subject matter but also 'learning to be' a full participant in the field. (Adapted from J.S.Brown)//**


 * **//This culture of sharing, combined with the culture of participation and the affordances of networked web 2.0 technologies, allows for the learning to start with the student.//**


 * **//Learning is social.//** **//Therefore, we may all contribute to these pages. Just navigate to the page you want and click Edit This Page. //**



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