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Fit2Learn: Learning How to Learn
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, LangWitches, 2019/11/28

I like the fitness metaphor. "This is a potential roadmap (among many others)… a guide to getting fit to learn how to learn in (only a few weeks away from) the third decade of the 21st century and to teach and educate children who will live into the 22nd century!" It's maybe a bit early for that - a child born today will be long-retired by the start of the 22nd century. Still, this is right: "The key to learning how to learn is to find examples, ideas, skills, projects, challenges, framework to get fit, develop your strength and test your abilities in learning how to learn."

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7 Steps to Establish Your Data-driven Learning Strategy
Steve Foreman, Learning Solutions, 2019/11/28

My own experience doing work in learning data is that the first step - "List the questions you want to answer" - is the most important, and the most difficult. That's because there's more than just 'you' in the equation. In a learning enterprise, there are multiple users of your data-driven strategy, everyone from instructional designers to program planners to funders to communications and marketing. Not to mention all the internal reporting requirements. I found I had to analyze every document the institution used, extract and then identify every reference to data. I found conflicting categories, inconsistent terminology, references to data that doesn't exist, and the collection of a lot of data that never gets used. Via Colt Alton.

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The Stages of Innovative Change
Eric Sheninger, A Principal's Reflections, 2019/11/28

Ever since Piaget, I guess, educators have embraced and endorsed 'stages' theories of, well, everything. Here we have 'stages of innovative change'. There are, to my mind, two major weaknesses to this approach. First, it presents the series of events as inevitable, as though 'innovative change' (whatever that may be) cannot be derailed. But surely it can, and in many cases, should be. Second, and related, it does not represent the graph of causal factors in which the sequence is embedded. This it leaves unstated what drivers and attractors motivate the change, the causes of friction, the list of who benefits and who is hurt, the cost of the change in people, dollars, and resources, and more.

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Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed
Kieren McCarthy, The Register, 2019/11/28

There has been ongoing discussion through the week in reaction to the news of the conversion of the non-profit .org top level domain to a profit-making entity. "The suffix “org” on an internet address – and there are over 10 million of them – has become synonymous with non-profit organizations. However, overnight and without warning that situation changed when the registry was sold to a for-profit company. The organization that operates the .org registry, PIR – which stands for Public Interest Registry – has confirmed it will discard the non-profit status it has held since 2003 as a result of the sale." This is why we can't have nice things.

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