Second Life - John Connell

Am currently listening to John Connell lecturing in Second Life on the Cisco News 'space' talking about Learning 2.0. There are people here from UK, France, Spain, Bulgaria and Australia (and I suspect other places too).

Once I had the sound sorted (and many people sprang to help me do that) the session was superb and I will go to John's blog tomorrow to pick up more.

Here are my garbled notes:

He has just said ... 'Knowledge is learning' ??

'What we teach is rarely what is learned'

The Web is the learning platform ... this underpins the concept of 'learning 2.0'

This is the key to it ... we have to move on ... all of us have to move on ... the longer we delay the more our young people will leave the intitutional system of education behind ... adapt or !!

Web 2.0 shifts the context of education

Questions (well, sort of):

How do we establish a system to trust the knowlege?

Wikipedia?

Concept of a global classroom ... GLOW ... web-based online platform ...working jointly across the world

The assessment tail is wagging the dog and we need to change this

There is much that I have not commented upon as I was involved in participating in the discussion ...

You can access John's slides from his blog. More than worth the effort.

PS
John has now put his summary of what he said on his blog ... here