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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

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When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

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The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . Is it okay, if I go ahead and kick things off officially? So good news.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. And, if questions emerged about a specific case study or example we shared – we would point out that they could tweet that person and ask them the question.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

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My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. .

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

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" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. He showed a slide that illustrates Lost's Mysteries (e.g. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. Games teach this.

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