Pete's Learning Ecology Presentation

See George Siemens (http:www.elearnspace.org/) defines an ecology as "an environment that fosters and supports the creation of communities." More traditonal definitions of the term highlight the "distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected b interactions between the orgnaisms and their environemtns" (Wikipedia 6.27.07)

Metaphors of Education

Teaching and learning as:
Journey
Gardening
Kindling
Flame
Filling a vessel

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Yashin-Web/The New Teaching of Russian?

Learning Ecology

Informal Fomal

Communities
Intent of Learning
Touch of Learning