Daily Bookmarks 05/28/2008
May 28, 2008-
50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life | College Degrees
Resources and tools for using Second Life for education and training
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Sensory Integration | Brain Rules |
Several people have mentioned John Medina’s book Brain Rules. A lot of this sounds common sense, but check the footnotes on slides 2 & 3 for his rule “Sensory Integration: Stimulate more of the senses.” He has a nice chart about how much more we remember for passive/active learning with multiple senses stimulated. He cites Dale’s cone of experience, but he has numbers for each level, so we know he’s, shall we say, stretching the research a bit.
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Social Networking: Learning Theory in Action
Exploring how social networking applications could be used to create a more social constructivist learning environment to support collaboration, creativity, and networking. (The author calls it “social learning theory” and contrasts it with “objectivist” learning, but never uses the phrase “social constructivism.” Still, it seems like that’s what she’s describing.)
