Design, Science and Technology

The challenge of dwindling attention spans
There’s a well-recycled statistic out there that says the human attention span has dwindled from 12 seconds at the start of the century to less than 8 seconds today. And while some people argue the legitimacy of this data point, the reality is that attention spans certainly aren’t getting any better. The multisensory nature of the internet, social media, and other digital technologies is rewiring the human brain and making it harder for people to stay focused on singular tasks and objectives – both online and offline.

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/curation-the-21st-century-way-to-learn-on-its-own-pace-and-to-organize-the-learning/

Why We Can No Longer Rely Only On Schools And Companies For Professional And Personal Development

Why We Can No Longer Rely Only On Schools And Companies For Professional And Personal Development

Having the original versus curated content debate? Here's research to help you. Advantages and disadvantages of original vs curated content are presented.

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- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/learn-every-day-a-bit-with-curation/

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

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This article addresses the argument of, "What is more effective: original or curated content?"

Content marketers teach, engage and persuade with words in a variety of channels. They need a strong grasp of language to write engaging content that stands out in a crowd and positions their company in a positive light. But writing content is not the only thing that a content marketer has to be capable of. Here's the real portrait of a Content Marketer: More than a marketer.

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- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/learn-every-day-a-bit-with-curation/

- https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/pkm-personal-professional-knowledge-management/

- http://blog.scoop.it/2011/11/30/lord-of-curation-series-gust-mees/

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=PKM

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=PLN

There is a difference between Social Media IN schools and Social Media FOR schools. While social media in schools deals primarily with policies around how to use (or not use) social media in the cl...

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/learning-path-for-professional-21st-century-learning-by-ict-practice/

We’ve been asked "how ethical is content curation?" so many times we decided to dig deep to give you a data answer: ethical content curation exists.

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We’ve been asked "how ethical is content curation?" so many times we decided to dig deep to give you a data answer: ethical content curation exists.

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

We’ve been asked "how ethical is content curation?" so many times we decided to dig deep to give you a data answer: ethical content curation exists.

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

LEARNing To LEARN, the PracTICE | With ALL that mass of information which WE get on each day in OUR technology driven Digital World, with the messages from Social Media through OUR  PLN (Personal [Professional] Learning Network), there is a MUST to organize OUR LEARNing! WE MUST unlearn the OLD and learn to learn differently as that was the case twenty years ago!

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- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/practice-learning-to-learn-example-2/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/learning-to-become-a-good-digital-citizen-digital-citizenship/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/education-collaboration-and-coaching-the-future/

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A new tool I will use with  colleagues in the continuing teacher development program I coordinate.

It will help a lot. Thanks.

Definitely well worth a read

My Thoughts:

You can't teach someone how to learn. You can give them helpful tips and advice, but a single structure for education is not going to work for everyone. It's so much harder for people to learn their true potential, to reach their goals, when they're only shown a single path to them. You show them the path through the forest, but what if there's a rock face nearby that also leads up to where they want to go, and what if they happen to be a fantastic rock climber? It just makes more sense to show someone a map if you can, instead of directing them towards only one path.

“Learning is most effective when it’s personalised; it means something to the learner. That happens when people feel they are participants and investors in their own learning, shaping what and how they learn, and able to articulate its value to them.” — Leadbeater, Charles

Famous Self-Taughts (Autodidacts): Leonardo Da Vinci, William Blake, Herb Rits (in addition to Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, John D. Rockefeller, and many others)