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Anne Davis is set to have
brain surgery later today.  I am praying for a successful
procedure and a fast recovery.  I have learned so much from her
over the past several years, for her work has had a profound influence
on my practice and undoubtedly on others in the educational
blogosphere.  Nothing will make me happier than to read [...]

A stimlating panel discussion took place on the future of learning yesterday at the Learning Innovations Symposium, featuring Jay Cross, Rob Pearson, and Stephen Downes - moderated by Lisa Neal.  Some of the ideas tossed around that struck me as worth thinking about more were:

The command-and-control model of education vs that of the ‘free range [...]

James Farmer just published his presentation entitled, Using Weblogs in Education, for the Learning Technologies User Group Workshop.  On the subject of the successful use of weblogs in educational settings, he says (mp3):

The only way that weblogs will work is if we start looking at teaching
and learning as communication, and if we start re-considering our
assessable [...]

I’ll be presenting later today with Barbara Dieu at the Tutor Mentor eConference about the work we’ve been doing at Blogstreams Salon and Dekita.org, the site we’ve recently launched in collaboration with Rudolf Ammann.  The title is Bringing Learners, Tutors, and Mentors together through Web-publishing: Blogstreams and Dekita.org.  The format is synchronous audio and will [...]

From Rebecca’s Pocket comes the link to the inspiring tale of Robert Materson,
a man who taught himself how to embroider while serving a 15-year
prison sentence.  What strikes me significant about this story is
that Robert was caught in a world of suffering, and it was the simple
act of stitching that not only led him to freedom, [...]

Rudolf Ammann, Barbara Dieu, and I have just started Dekita.org, a community dedicated to promoting peer-to-peer communication in language learning.   The main page
will serve to draw attention to the Web-publishing work of EFL/ESL
learners and celebrate the projects in which they are involved. 
It will also be a way for people to locate student publications and
participate in [...]