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Contemporary learning environments might be best understood when viewed as a complex mix of environments and overlapping social networks. Learners fluidly move between social networks and their learning is influenced by their participation within and across these physical and virtual networks. Under 
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How might education look beyond today? What can we look forward to seeing in learning? Here are 6 future learning scenarios to get you thinking.
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Via Shona Whyte
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Learning, the real learning, happens… When you are intentional about learning When you are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by external triggers and rewards. When you ask more questions to get to the WHY of things (and then to what and how) When you carry an open frame of mind
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Successful leaders know that they must get out of their comfort zone to succeed. These leaders have spent a lot of time outside their comfort zone.
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What if we asked our students about the type of work they would prefer to do while in class? It may reveal a lot about what choices they would make for assignments and activities and why they make these choices.
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A number of reasons commonly given for lecturing and claims commonly made for the efficiency of lecturers are examined for their basis in empirical evidence and common sense. Most of these claims are found to be somewhat weak. It appears that lecturing takes place rather more often than can be reasonably justified. The real reasons for the popularity of lecturing amongst lecturers are then examined. Of the twenty reasons for lecturing examined here, the first nine have little substance and the last eleven are avoidable.
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A fantastic plenary talk by Sugata Mitra at IATEFL 2014 on the future of learning, schools in the cloud, collaborative learning and his "the hole in the wall" project.
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Technology is not here to replace a teacher but to enhance their capabilities. When it is used properly, a teacher learns new ways of teaching, and it not only improves the delivery of instruction but improves the teacher as a learner too. And a good teacher (so called 21st century teacher) has the most important trait of being a learner herself.
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A. Weiler: Concentrating on vocabulary learning to the exclusion of all else is a common mistake that many language learners make. That is not surprising as I have seen so much emphasis made in language learning books and courses, about the importance of vocabulary. There is no doubt about the importance of vocabulary. However I feel that its importance has been and is being overemphasised to the detriment of the development language proficiency in the learner.
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Technology in education gets plenty of hype, but let's not forget the importance of teaching and learning, says Pamela Wright
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When we look at what research says about becoming better at something, two pieces of evidence stand out. Via Nik Peachey
Sacra Jáimez's curator insight,
January 12, 2017 1:11 PM
We shouldn't take for granted how important is to set a habit formation loop in our classes so that longlife learning and continuous improvement be just part of the process of being an educated person.
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Digital portfolios are something that are really starting to take off in schools. There are different software programs that will make “portfolios” easy to share, yet do we truly embrace the power that a digital portfolio can bring into our schools? Since it is “digital”, we need to go beyond a portfolio that only represents one year of learning, but can show the progression over time.
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In 1987 Breen attempted to persuade the ELT world to make a fundamental change in direction by changing from a product syllabus, which concentrates on what is to be learned, to a process syllabus, ...
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In "what does your handwriting say about you" we learned that the way we write can reveal great deal about our personalities. The today's post introduces you to another equally important infographic but this time to the importance of handwriting for enhancing learning. The visual features some really interesting facts about the impact of handwriting on our cognition. It also provides some useful tips to help students improve their handwriting.
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The human brain is our best friend, and our worst enemy, and unless we keep one eye peeled, it can hijack our learning completely. ...
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What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning. photo by Wade Davis by Carol Black The following statement somehow showed up on my Twitter feed the other day: “Spontaneous reading ...
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We are now in the age of visual information where visual content plays a role in every part of life. As 65 percent of the population are visual learners, images are clearly key to engaging people in eLearning courses.
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nenteGuided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have homed in on ten top teaching methods, and teachers receive weekly PD to help them implement the practices. Teachers keep students on their toes by moving them to different parts of the room during lessons. Graphic organizers are another technique used at Cochrane to help students learn new information. ...
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Here are six reasons why we might give homework, along with the questions we should ask ourselves before doing so:
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We live in a society of information overload with technological access at every corner and, more than ever, people complaining that they simply "just don't have the time." We are expected to filter the constant bombardment of mostly insignificant information, making it difficult to find out what is relevant, important, and crucial to our everyday lives. ... We are always looking for new tools to improve our learning, so let's meet the new kid taking the learning world by storm, infographics.
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