The Reality of e-Learning in the 21st Century

A conversation

The truth?

The extent?

The nature?

The potential?

E-LEARNINGOR

E-WISDOM

IS enchanting, exciting, engaging,

enriching, essential, excruciating,

elephantine, exhausting, exasperating,

empty, equitable, excluding,

episodic, exposed, emancipatory and emergent… BUT ABOVE ALL, IT”S

ETHICAL & EARTHY

C-learning?

Connections

CreativityCo-operationCommunities

ConversationsCommunicationContemplation

GC-learning?

Global community

Global citizen

Global consciousness

Global conscience

Things You Really Need to LearnStephen Downes

• How to predict consequences• How to read• How to distinguish truth from fiction• How to empathize• How to be creative• How to communicate clearly• How to learn - creating patterns of connectivity in your brain

• How to stay healthy• How to value yourself• How to live meaningfully - probably the hardest to learn, and the least taught

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html

Lost persons’

computer station,

post-Katrina

http://marketingbestpractices.typepad.com/marketing_best_practices_/2005/09/hurrice_katrina.html

altmuslim review… a regular downloadable audio podcast. Each show will review the most interesting recent cultural, political,

and religious events in a balanced (and humorous) way.

It's a Muslim ‘Daily Show’ for your iPod. (Well, almost.)

http://www.altmuslim.com/am_podcasts.php http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/index.php

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Family & Community - Gender Relations - Islamic Thought –

US Politics - World Politics - War & Conflict

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Iranian Women’s Movement Beyond Gender and Agehttp://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/23/iranian-womens-movement-beyond-gender-and-age/

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