Reflections for Learning Deeper

Thanks to Blogs, we can reflect our learning and connect our experiences with the lessons.
We can even use News clippings/ Web page clippings/video/audio etc on our blogs:

Purpose of a Learner's blog

1. Learners write a blog to record 
2. Their opinion of the class to give feedback to teacher and co-learners.
3. Their reflections on what was taught
4. To create their own meaning to ideas discussed and points explained

Resource named Alison
Alison is a WikiEducator Content that helps in life long learning.

Members here can use the content to learn together and then use the same method to teach and earn.
The content is regularly updated to include new topics and fields of knowledge relevant to day to day business

Resouce collections
I also explained in depth about the links that link to the links given. The aggregated information rich links must be treasured by the members using a Social Bookmarking program viz. http://delicious.com/rajettan

P2PU
Teachers and learners can join here and co-learn.

I have joined a Mathematics training program here, by Maria Drjkova.

Watching Educational networking in action
The back channelling was interesting. I could watch networking among members here, inviting each other to connect and contribute.

Watching the little girl in Marina. Marina's personal power may be the adorable little girl she still nurtures inside.
Marina may need a little more time to get used to the method as she has to unlearn her years of practise as a teacher

Introduced Pretty May, an extension to Skype, that records the conversation
Introduced Vod Burner, an extension ot Skype that records the video

Marina will explain today about digital and visual literacy as she is given the challenge to Google it.

Reghunathan and Subramanya have been giving motivational push to Marina.
Introduced URL shortener like www.bit.ly and www.goo.gl that enables us to shorten the URL for distribution through Twitter

Points for discussion today

1. Around the world and here in the India., education increasingly promotes curricula and teaching methods that foster economic growth over personal growth. Our schools promote marketability and maximize profitability, rather than critical thinking, personal accountability, tolerance, cooperation, and compassion. And it's always the humanities that get cut in a crunch.
2. A democratic society demands broad knowledge, informed judgment, equitable distribution -- in short, a kind of morality that does not come from the study of science, technology, economics, and marketing.
3. Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everybody in the middle of 21st century
4. Computational creativity can happen only when we use it effectively until tech is used like electricity.
5. Computing and computers will enable the spread of computational thinking