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 =Theme 1 Table 3 (Pink) = = Implications of continuously emerging technologies for learning and learners=

Facilitator: John Travers Provocateur: **Peter le Cornu ** Topic: Informal Learning: The Challenges


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Mobility

Skills Knowledge and literacies

Assessment and curriculum development

Certification

Mass amateurisation

Teaching methods

Roles


 * Informal Learning**

ICT is expanding our capacity to learning informally. The big issue: teaching students how to think and discriminate and manage their informal and formal learning, and to integrate these: a lot of learning for teachers in this! Discussion revolved a lot about the contradictions within the field - that while informal learning is undobtedly vauable and important (and always has been) it is very difficult to track and credit people for it in a formal system. - information skills critical for this - recognition of informal learning a major issue: it can be done and is done in some institutions now - and, other points.... - portfolios a useful tool to record learning, leading on to... - personal learning environments a valuable tool for students to become confident in using in order to manage their learning - role of the teacher - assessment || - skills in informal learning need be taught and learned - literacies (new) need to be taught and not left to accidental acquisition. || - clash between the value of informal learning and formal recognition - are some people suited to informal and others not? - yes, some students resist informal and collaborative learning becuase they find it includes 'sharing ignorance'. ||
 * - recognition of learning a major issue
 * || - professional learning communities that critically review and analyse practices - critical tool for improvement - and recognise all forms of learning, regardless of whether informal or fomal. || some internet sources are not reliable ||