From Etienne Wegner, in _Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity_, p7 >Placing the focus on participation has broad implications for what it takes to understand and support learning. >* For _individuals_, it means that learning is an issue of engaging in and contributing to the practices of their communities. * For _communities_, it means that learning is an issue of refining their practice and ensuring new generations of members. * For _organizations_, it means that learning is an issue of sustaining the interconnected communities of practice through which an organizations knows what it knows and thus becomes effective and valuable as an organization. ...
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| kanarinka | "Thanks @Cindy_Excites - these are super resources and I have not seen them previously. I wonder how the emerging field of data literacy could borro..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| cindy_excites | "Hello @kanarinka I couldn't access the paper to read it (their sever seems to be having issues right now) so this is just a quick note to say that ..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "I've been thinking more about this and recalled Sara Hendren's great piece All Technology is Assistive, which I love. I started thinking that ther..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| kanarinka | "Yes - I think to some extent all tools should probably be designed for learners. But certain very large and very flexible tools are bad/intimidatin..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "Also, v important question: what color would your next tool in this suite be? Purple? :-) " | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "I love this framework, thank you!! I guess though that I wonder what prevents a learner's tool from being a user's tool -- thinking of Scratch her..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "Wow, this is super impressive!!! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago |