May 2009

Surprise! Assorted Edutweets

May 31, 2009

The Twitter Tools plugin I use for generating these assorted edutweets posts has been acting kind of flaky lately. In fact, it hasn’t worked at all the past couple of weeks, so I was surprised when it suddenly generated this list. The list got auto-published before I could catch it, so I am going to [...]

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Best Graduation Advice and Other Edutweets

May 26, 2009

I’ve been changing up my approach to Edutweets a bit. First, I no longer do them weekly, but instead publish them whenever I have accumulated what seems like a substantive list of resources. Second, I am starting to take more of a “digital curator” approach by organizing the links into headings that align with major [...]

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A Definition of Learning

May 21, 2009

Given that Mission to Learn is a blog about lifelong learning, it seems only appropriate that I offer up a definition of learning as I see it. So here’s my definition: Learning is the lifelong process of transforming information and experience into knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes. I might add to that: It is not [...]

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Myngling to Learn a Language

May 19, 2009

I’ve been thinking about brushing up on my Russian lately, and so decided to take a look at some of the interactive language learning sites that are now available on the Web. First stop, Myngle, a site that helps language learners connect with teachers of more than 40 different languages. Myngle provides a virtual classroom [...]

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The Blue Sweater: A Learning Journey

May 18, 2009

I think most readers here will agree that learning is a lifelong, continuous process – not an event confined to a particular place or time. Even so, we can all point to experiences or periods in our life that were particularly transformational, that elevated our knowledge and understanding to a level we had not previously [...]

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