How old is your brain?

See if your brain is as old as your body ~ or ~ OLDER !!

Read the following instructions since the game is in Japanese:

Procedure of Flash Fabrica Game:

1. Touch ‘start’

2. Wait for 3, 2, 1.

3. Memorize the number’s position on the screen, then click the circle from the SMALLEST number to the BIGGEST number.

4. At the end of game, the computer will tell you the age of your brain.

Good luck !! CLICK ON LINE BELOW

Brain or

http://flashfabrica.com/f_learning/brain/brain.html

Collaboration in networks

 Very interesting post in this 3 types of collaboration. I like your cluster of activities.

Collaboration could also be “within the institution governance” and “outside the institution governance – social networks & COP”.

Connective collaboration could be the most challenging one, as this requires certain degree of “1) a shared sense of mission 2) mutual respect 3) trust 4) a commitment to continual improvement.” for that type of collaboration to be sustainable. My response to your post here is an example of such collaboration with you and the wider community, when others join in with you, though it is at a very early stage.

The compounding collaboration is more related to the Master-Apprenticeship model, where On-the-job training has been practiced for decades, and could still be very effective if it relates to skills based training and learning. I have been involved in this sort of collaboration in the past decades.  It is still one of the most useful models of collaboration amongst team-based learning.

For advanced knowledge & skills that requires reflective learning, then the academic discourse and debates amongst scholars (peer reviews) in journal articles would be the highest forms of collaboration. I would suggest that this could be a combination of connective and compounding collaboration when it is outside the institution, and all three when it is done inside the institution.

Would there be a fourth form of collaboration? This is a networked collaboration with adaptive, agile and “just in time” sort of collaboration. The nature of collaboration changes in both scope and direction as the individual or collective vision changes. The actors morph along the social media platforms and could collaborate in different modes – from the centre in an ad hoc manner to the peripheral, then gradually return to the centre with a focus of collaboration, with a complex pattern, basing upon the needs and expectations of the actors.  This is adaptive emergent collaboration.

Systemic Transformation

What do we mean by systemic transformation?

Education starts with the learners, for the learners, by the learners.

That is the education that would prepare learners for the challenges, and is relevant to them.

It takes one year to grow crops, ten years to grow trees, but tens of years to grow people.

Let’s start with growing people, via networks, technology, media, and systems.