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iPhone users can now access and view their spreadsheets and charts: RoamBi is an app that lets you view the static data from spreadsheets as interactive charts.

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Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

This image of Earth taken from Mars’ orbit represents my theme today.
While doing some house-keeping on my YouTube Favourites recently I re-discovered again an except from Carl Sagan’s work Pale Blue Dot.
Rediscovered again? Are we going all Sam Beckett here? (No. Not Quantum [...]

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Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

This image of Earth taken from Mars’ orbit represents my theme today.
While doing some house-keeping on my YouTube Favourites recently I re-discovered again an except from Carl Sagan’s work Pale Blue Dot.
Rediscovered again? Are we going all Sam Beckett here? (No. Not Quantum [...]

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Significantly, Jonassen et al point out that learning is not restricted to formal learning environments, and that learners can “acquire sophisticated skills and advanced knowledge in natural learning situations” (p. 28).

Table

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Significantly, Jonassen et al point out that learning is not restricted to formal learning environments, and that learners can “acquire sophisticated skills and advanced knowledge in natural learning situations” (p. 28).

Table 1 Characteristics of a computer-based learning environment (after Jonassen, 1994)

Characteristic

Definition

Active:

Learners are engaged by the learning process in mindful processing of information [...]

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Significantly, Jonassen et al point out that learning is not restricted to formal learning environments, and that learners can “acquire sophisticated skills and advanced knowledge in natural learning situations” (p. 28).

Table 1 Characteristics of a computer-based learning environment (after Jonassen, 1994)

Characteristic

Definition

Active:

Learners are engaged by the learning process in mindful processing of information [...]

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David H Jonassen, with his colleagues Chad Carr and Hsiu-Ping Yeuh in Computers as Mindtools for Engaging Learners in Critical Thinking, (1998) proposes that learning is an active and creative process in that information is processed “mindfully” (p.30), since the learner not only collects information but also constructs a format for representing that information and [...]

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David H Jonassen, with his colleagues Chad Carr and Hsiu-Ping Yeuh in Computers as Mindtools for Engaging Learners in Critical Thinking, (1998) proposes that learning is an active and creative process in that information is processed “mindfully” (p.30), since the learner not only collects information but also constructs a format for representing that information and [...]

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David H Jonassen, with his colleagues Chad Carr and Hsiu-Ping Yeuh in Computers as Mindtools for Engaging Learners in Critical Thinking, (1998) proposes that learning is an active and creative process in that information is processed “mindfully” (p.30), since the learner not only collects information but also constructs a format for representing that information and [...]

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In 2001, David Jonassen argued that “most e-learning replicates the worst features of face-to-face instruction. So, it may be cheaper to ‘deliver’ knowledge over the Internet, but it will not be more effective” (“Interview with Professor David Jonassen”, 2001). He correctly identified that at the time e-learning was on the ascender of the hype curve, [...]

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