Education 2.0 & 3.0

What has become very clear over the last 11 years is that many individuals are now using a wide selection of web-based resources, tools, and services to learn in new ways, and in doing so they have become highly independent continuous learners.

I call these individuals, Modern Professional Learners.

These Modern Professional Learners don’t just have a modern toolset for learning – i.e. they don’t just rely on educational or training tools, but they make use of a wide variety of everyday tools – they also have a new mindset about how and when learning happens for, at and through work, as well as a new learning skillset.

Modern Professionals learn for many different reasons – not just because they have to, to become competent and compliant in their organisation – but because they want to, for their own personal and professional reasons. Here are some of those reasons:

To acquire a new body of knowledge or a new skill

To solve a performance problem

To improve the work they currently do

To keep up to date with what’s happening in their industry or professional

To prepare for the future

For inspiration

To innovate (i.e. do or think differently)

For the joy of learning

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Modern+Learning

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

Learning is more than just asking questions and getting answers (whether through social media or a search engine), there’s an active component to learning that is too often forgotten. When I look at the tools in the Top 100 tools for learning, I see some reflective tools, e.g. writing, but I may be one of the few who’s talking about diagramming tools, and I think that’s important. Not diagramming, per se, but representation tools that allow us to express our understanding.

So in my mind learning is action and reflection, with two nuances. The first notion is that the action/reflection cycle is the process, not the outcome. The outcome, technically, is a new response to the same stimuli.

In short, we act and reflect to develop our ability to do something different and presumably better. The second is that this is separate from instruction, which is designed action and guided reflection.  Self-learning, however, requires self-designed action and self-guided reflection.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/design-the-learning-of-your-learners-students-ideas/

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

Learning is more than just asking questions and getting answers, learning is action and reflection. The outcome is a new response to the same stimuli.

Last week I wrote a post about Connected Learning and how it offers a semi-directed, semi-structured approach to workplace learning that fits between the directed, structured knowledge sharing (aka...

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