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Supporting Self-Directed Learning
In a previous post, I suggested creating self-directed learning environments as a way to improve health literacy. As noted by Fischer and Scharff (1998): The challenge for environments supporting...
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Supporting divergent thinking in the workplace
Divergent thinking is the ability to generate many different original ideas in response to a given problem. In a video that’s gone viral recently (at least among educators), Sir Ken Robinson points...
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Strategies and tools for divergent thinking
In a previous post, I discussed divergent thinking, an important part of innovation that’s not adequately supported in many workplaces. I also described how group dynamics can influence divergent...
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Why we can’t ignore social media
I wanted to share this great Slideshare presentation by Espresso. If you haven’t been convinced yet by the many voices on Twitter describing how social media can be a tool for education, training, and...
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Reflections on a social game for health innovation
In a previous post, I described The Foresight Engine, an interesting game designed to encourage divergent thinking about a complex health problem in an alternative reality. To recap, players involved...
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Keeping an eye on education and innovation with Education Eye
In beta, Education Eye is a novel, specialized search engine focused on collecting content relating to “innovative practices” in education. The technology (or what are my powers?) Education Eye is a...
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The interplay between games and social media platforms
The process of including game thinking and game mechanics to engage audiences and change behaviors and/or solve problems is called gamification. Gamification has gotten a bad rap over the past year...
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Quora: A social network built for learning
Twitter’s a great source of curated information and can get quite social when people engage directly with each other through chats. However, it’s not really a network where you find or generate deeper...
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Create Web stories with Montage
Developed by Microsoft, Montage is a free platform that allows you to collect, curate, and display content from the Web. If you like the way paper.li aggregates content and displays it in an...
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Using Web Intents in WordPress
WordPress has made it easy to include interactive images of Tweets in your blog thanks to Blackbird Pie and Twitter’s Web Intents tool. Happily, if you’re a WordPress user, you don’t have to think...
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