Learning to direct your life

First of all I want to thank my readers for their feedback - via several (social) media - on my previous blog. This blog was inspired on Chris Crawford's idea of a god who determines every detail versus a god who deals in rules and principles. Both gods of course are personifications of visions on reality and on virtual realities - personifications and story-telling can be used in communication in order to make it easier to comprehend complicated situations.

Tagged with: directing life, skills, attitude, knowledge, learning,

Web 2.0 & Learning

This week our research on Web 2.0 and its use by students (13-19 olds) was published by Kennisnet. This publication is based on a more substantial report, which utilises desk research and interviews with over hundred students to bring a more differentiated picture to the table regarding the discussion on the Net-Generation. Some popular beliefs and premises are critically analysed based on scientific evidence and empirical proof. For instance there is no hard evidence for younger people being better at multitasking than older people. One can even question the benefits of multitasking all together. Furthermore it is argued that younger people are not necessarily more information competent. They are better in handling ICT, but don't show any head start in finding relevant source material and evaluating it on relevance, reliability and usefulness.

Tagged with: learning, web 2.0,