This is an interesting article written by Howard Rheingold about new methods of teaching utilizing collaboration and peer-to-peer learning. Right up my alley!

Here is alink to a great cartoon about the clarity using the oxford comma can bring to writing.

Here are two talks by Sir Ken Robinson discussing changing education paradigms.

TED Talk

RSA Animate – Chaning Education Paradigms

I have a new article titled An information literacy perspective on learning and new media out in On The Horizon. You can access it here.

John Kirriemuir Pecha Kucha about the Passion of librarians: http://vimeo.com/16653218

Here is a great article that really highlights the collective ability of a gaming community. The problem solving and spatial reasoning skills of the gaming community allowed them to solve a difficult problem, that of creating a detailed molecular structure of a rhesus monkey virus, that has long stumped scientists. To read about this excellent discovery and tremendous example of collective intelligence click here.

The program is up for the GLS conference (click here). The conference is a half-day longer than last year with great new session format and an art exhibit. It is worth checking out.