Comments on: Learning on Purpose http://donnadesroches.ca/2009/04/19/learning-on-purpose/ Learning and Technology Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:53:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tracy Rosen http://donnadesroches.ca/2009/04/19/learning-on-purpose/#comment-4641 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:15:04 +0000 http://donnadesroches.ca/?p=222#comment-4641 “What was the last thing you really learned on purpose? I don’t mean something that you learned in passing. I mean something you went out of your way to find out about. Not because you had to but because you wanted to.”

Great question. What if we asked it of our students?

]]> By: joanvinallcox http://donnadesroches.ca/2009/04/19/learning-on-purpose/#comment-4513 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:28:20 +0000 http://donnadesroches.ca/?p=222#comment-4513 Hi Donna,
Have you seen Jane Hart’s site? I’m sending you the link where she mentions me (no, not an ego thing, of couse not ;-> ) http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2009/04/the-nambu-network.html She has an amazing collection of social learning resources.

]]> By: Real Gary Ball http://donnadesroches.ca/2009/04/19/learning-on-purpose/#comment-4502 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:15:23 +0000 http://donnadesroches.ca/?p=222#comment-4502 You may not have started learning about Web 2.0 on purpose but I sure bet that you delved in deeper because you wanted to (not because you had to). As far as I am concerned anything that you go out of your way to research you are doing on purpose.

Isn’t it great to have job where you get fired up about learning about job related things.

]]> By: Carol Koechlin http://donnadesroches.ca/2009/04/19/learning-on-purpose/#comment-4501 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:39:23 +0000 http://donnadesroches.ca/?p=222#comment-4501 Purposeful or not Donna you have learned how to keep on learning and as you indicate in your post you have built an environment to ensure that you keep on learning. Student and teacher learners will thrive if we help them to build these kinds of learning environments. The school library can be the catalyst by designing a Virtual Learning Commons for their schools that embraces multi-way collaborations.

]]> By: Donna DesRoches http://donnadesroches.ca/2009/04/19/learning-on-purpose/#comment-4500 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:23:27 +0000 http://donnadesroches.ca/?p=222#comment-4500 Yes – true – but I didn’t purposefully plan to become so involved in Web 2.0 – it just happened. Then I used it to build a learning environment that would keep new things coming to me – so then the learning has happened in passing….or did it? hmmm….you’ve got me thinking again!

]]> By: Patricia Cone http://donnadesroches.ca/2009/04/19/learning-on-purpose/#comment-4499 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:07:04 +0000 http://donnadesroches.ca/?p=222#comment-4499 Wouldn’t your job description (I believe you are the first person in the post) would encompass learning almost everything on purpose????

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