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Building Community Lifelong Learning Hubs – 2023

An enriched community learning hub encourages participants (students, faculty, community leaders) to contribute as co-learners, contributors and curators. Though the focus for some participants may be to develop skills such as digital literacy, others might require ways to connect with community leads to get referrals to employment and volunteering opportunities, community services and programs; others…

Transformative Learning Rises

In this unprecedented time of COVID-19, I have had to change my regular work routines and processes and work from home, finding other ways of interacting with colleagues and finding other ways to support learners. I have had to transform the ways I work and learn. Never before have I seen so much innovation, so…

Review of Blogging Activity – Exemplar

Title: In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification URL: http://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/30/in-defense-of-links-part-one-nick-carr-hypertext-and-delinkification/ Author: Scott Rosenberg Date: September 2, 2010 For Further Reflection and Unpacking: If we are going to study the impact of hypertext on our brains and our culture, surely we should look at the reality of the Web, not the dream…

Enriched versus Impoverished Learning Environments

Very simply, enriched environments coupled with play, social interaction, care, and challenges are important for learning. All of these factors are significant to the growth and strength of dendrites! Marian Diamond, 1998; URL In my experience, I have had had many amazing teachers and had been inspired to work hard to become one myself. I…

Formal Testing can be a Stressful Form of Feedback

How do we usually respond to receiving grades and report cards, or transcripts from our teachers and professors for assignments, quizzes, tests, and exams? One’s past experiences can impact on how we feel about getting graded. How we respond also depends on how well we think we prepared for the testing, how much effort we…