A Thought from Rick's Presentation
I’m at the AECT Board of Director’s meeting / Research Symposium this week. Rick Schwier (@schwier) is presenting about learning in formal, non-formal, and informal environments. Listening to him talk helped me crystalize something I already sort of knew but had never but into words to my satisfaction. IF people construct meaning based on their own prior knowledge and past experience, and IF a wide variety of tools and content like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, OpenCourseWare, blogs, etc., are significant, important parts of some people’s every day lives, and ...