jenninat0r (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

And I think you're an informal teacher...! You've explained it better than most of my lecturers in university. You have a very positive outlook on new media's role in education, but like Henry Jenkins I also believe that the so-called "web 2.0" technologies can be put to good means and ends in the digital age. Great video!

dbzfan66 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I said all beef hot links!

NeedToMeetNickJonas (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

He's Cool :)

bladergirl99 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

is that ur grandfather or something

dannycoulombe (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Very instructive! Direct contact with people is a very important learning method that I hasn't toke time to analyse before. As a french webmaster looking for a web to learn in this english web (because english is the universal language here), I think that a real eyes contact as demonstrated in your teaching, give a great help in learning confidence and stimulate positive orizons.I hope that I was clear in that foreign language.

ChessLectures (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Very interesting, personally the "art" and "science" of learning (and informal learning) is probably the most interesting thing.I am a chess player and i find that the process of informal-learning is perhaps more important then the normal examatic / 1-2-3 method. There's a book by Waitzkin- "The Art of Learning" exactly on that topic.You made me realize that i'm an Informal-Learner and that is why i have an almost autistic ability for autodidaction and such low grades!Thanks

CorbeauBlanc (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I am a student and I am shocked how much everything is about exams, especially in the british systems.I always say, if school was good it would not need to be obligatory.

trombone7 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Good video. You need to be bigger on the screen though. At no point did your face actually take up the entire screen. I think the biggest barrier to informal learning is a company not wanting to really go into "Why we do it this way." They don't want to conversationally uproot the motivations or lack of motivations, or how shallow monotonous or redundant entire departments of a company are. They'd rather put together a bullet-point email presentation and a multiple choice test. Thanks again.

janicewhite (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Thanks for the conversation Jay! Your slides seemed to play the part of the respondent and there's nothing like eye contact to maintain attention. Good to find an interesting resource on an interesting topic - informal learning.

amysue102 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Brilliant, Jay! I'm trying to post this video on my blog, but it looks like YouTube doesn't support TypePad yet, so I'm just going to have to link to it...