Second Life

I am making some progress in Second Life. Managed to move from Welcome Island to the city where some PLENK2010 classmates arrange meetings.

I was a bit skeptical to Second Life because of Barbie-looking avatars, not having your own name and things that costs money etc.

But I now realize there is lot of advantages too. I am travelling to New York in an few weeks, and Second Life allows me to explore the city before going there IRL. This is New York Ballroom and Jazz Club according to Second Life for example. Seems like a nice place.

By the way, am I allowed to film and take pictures in Second Life? To show the environment to collegues and students?

Flow and Mindfulness in PLENK2010 - Learning Theories

Maybe it is not a learning theory the way constructionism and behaviorism is, but FLOW in relation to todays learning environments seems interesting to me.

Wikipedia about flow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology). From this link you get to know for example that "Psychologists have found that one's mind can only attend to a certain amount of information at a time. According to Miller's 1956 study, that number is about 126 bits of information per second. That may seem like a large number (and a lot of information), but simple daily tasks take quite a lot of information. Just having a conversation takes about 40 bits of information per second; that's 1/3 of one's capacity"

• How do I design a PLE for flow (is it at all possible)?

Also terms like mindfulness and acceptance come to my mind when thinking about todays learning environments(lots of inputs, lots of options) rather than learning theories.

Where I work as a special education teacher, we often also talk about the term salutogenesis coined by Aaron Antonovsky.Important due to this theory is a sense of coherence.

"More specifically, the "salutogenic model" is concerned with the relationship between health, stress and coping." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutogenesis)

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App till Iphone

för att träna på matematik, rapporterar svt om idag.

My Notes from Week Three in PLENK2010

My notes from week two? Here they are

My notes from week one? Here they are

Vi testade att chatta live :-D

på sista lektionen i fredags. På grund av sjukdom fick ordinarie lektionen skjutas upp och då passade jag på att få igenom i mitt förslag.

I tio minuter chattade lärare och elever tillsammans med hjälp av det superenkla mötesverktyget Todaysmeet. Frågan som diskuterades var hur det kan komma sig att nästan bara killar väljer elprogrammet medan nästan bara tjejer väljer vårdprogrammet.

På tio minuter hann vi med att komma igång med verktyget, debattera frågan och alla de sex deltagarna kom till tals. Då hann vi även med att titta på en film sedan.

Det blev ett snyggt häfte med fyra sidor diskussion när jag printade ut den. Nu ligger utskriften i fikarummet så att fler kan läsa den

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