Blog posts about Dadamac Learners

It's wonderful when things fall into place. Two examples from last week are Wednesday's Meetup on Informal Learning and Learning Networks, and Friday's visibility session with Julliet Makhapila. Learning Networks On Wednesday I led a GlobalNet21 Meetup called - The 21st Century - An Age of Informal Learning and Learning Networks . This has emerged from overlapping interests with Francis Sealey, founder of GlobalNet21. I won't list all the areas of overlap in detail, but they include systemic change in the 21st century and ongoing education as an attitude to life. Last year, when Francis and I were first exploring...

Pamela McLean and David Pinto: An Exploration of the future through a mixture of fact and fiction. in "Alice in Wonderland" - or maybe "Through the Looking Glass" - Alice is exasperated by Humpty Dumpty. It's all about the way he's using language. Humpty insists on using words to mean what he chooses them to mean - never mind what they mean to other people. I'm with Humpty Dumpty on that. I can see his point. It's hard enough to find words to capture enough meaning to explain things to myself. Maybe I should stop worrying if the words mean...

My dream for the Dadamacadamy is that it will become a centre for research and learning. This is already starting to happen in a small way. The Dadamacadamy will not provide taught courses. It will do three interrelated things: Provide an environment for practice-based learning and reflection. Create a repository of knowledge. Make available its knowledge and networks through collaborative research and consultancy. Provide an environment for practice based learning and reflection. People who have shared concerns will cluster together in the Dadamacadamy to consider what they're doing, and to share what they are learning. The Dadamacadamy will enable peer-based...

So... how is the Internet actually changing opportunities to learn? Does the phrase "death of distance" really mean anything? Here's a quick example from this afternoon (February 25th) when John Iruaga who was in Nigeria sent his first Tweet, helped via Skype by Andy Broomfield who was in the UK. It was a spontaneous bit of teaching. It happened simply because Andy was sitting next to me, working on his laptop, when I bumped into John Iruaga on Skype. i knew that John Dada had asked John Iruaga to find out about social networking, so Twitter was on his learning...

I am back from the Video Bridge Streaming Sharing and Learning workshop in Vienna. Over the next few days I will be reflecting on what went on, looking for patterns, and seeing how things might continue in ways that are relevant (both to the Dadamac community and to me as a learner). This may result in a flurry of blogs - if it does please forgive me. At the workshop Franz did a great job of enabling the participants to become a community. The participants all represented communities of some kind. Franz ran a video bridge session, linking us with...