LEARNING: Horizontal.

Peer to peer learning, sharing amongts participants, learning from eachother

Show me your FB page and I will tell you how smart you are

(Science Daily) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Social Networks Security Research Group in its Department of Information Systems Engineering has developed a novel method to predict how well or badly a student will perform in an academic course.

KEEP IT HUMAN

(one+ magazine) I have always hated online courses. Even though I’ve been a Net enthusiast since before there was a Net, I have never appreciated when intimate, real-life encounters are relegated to the digital realm. Education is a particularly human-to-human transmission. Students learn as much from watching their professors think in real time as they do hearing whatever facts and ideas come out of them.

CAMPFIRES IN CYBERSPACE: PRIMORDIAL METAPHORS FOR LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

(ASTD) Media are not interchangeable, a learner using the Web has a completely different experience from one in a classroom. As we use more electronic media for learning, it's essential that we understand the unique nature of each expressive medium we encounter. Here's a new theory for educational systems that's based on four primordial learning spaces: campfires (information), watering holes (conversation), caves (concept), and life (context).

Campfires

What's Your Name Again? Lack of Interest, Not Brain's Ability, May Be Why We Forget

(ScienceDaily) Most of us have experienced it. You are introduced to someone, only to forget his or her name within seconds. You rack your brain trying to remember, but can't seem to even come up with the first letter. Then you get frustrated and think, "Why is it so hard for me to remember names?"

Creating Participatory Conferences, The P In EPIC

(Jeff Hurt) Do you remember Pop Rocks candy?

It was the candy that exploded and jumped in your mouth.

Or perhaps you recall Zotz, the candy that fizzed in your mouth.

Interactive Candy

Conferences Need To Focus On Creating Experiences, The E Of EPIC Conferences

(Jeff Hurt) Imagine it’s 2084.

You are craving a new experience that you’ve not had in the past.

You decide to visit Rekall to get a memory implant of a new vacation experience.

This is the setting of the 1990 movie Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger or the 2012 remake with Colin Farrell.

While Total Recall is set in the future, it is a perfect illustration of today’s society that is consumed with collecting experiences.

Moving Towards More Peeragogy Learning Experiences For Conferences And Associations

(Jeff Hurt)
What if at your next education experience, the speaker gave all the expert-power to the audience?

What if the participants were empowered to take more control of their learning, collaboration and dialogue? It’s happening in secondary schools, colleges, universities and some education experiences across the globe. It’s peeragogy or paragogy, also known as peer-based learning.

Defining Peeragogy

Does Cooperation Require Both Reciprocity and Alike Neighbors?

Evolution by definition is cold and merciless: it selects for success and weeds out failure. It seems only natural to expect that such a process would simply favour genes that help themselves and not others. Yet cooperative behaviour can be observed in many areas, and humans helping each other are a common phenomenon. Thus, one of the major questions in science today is how cooperative behaviour could evolve.

KISS THE FROG WINS FIRST FRESH AWARD

The first fresh award was won by Kristine Nygaard from Kiss The Frog, a Danish Graphic Facilitator. The Fresh award promotes tools and services that increase meeting effectiveness. Read more in the attached report. For an interview see attached report, for picture see attached pictures.

also  the FRESH website   

see VIDEO of the ceremony (10min)

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