• Learnodes.com is transitioning to a new name and theme: Handschooling.com

    The new blog will review excellent mobile content for learning and trace the emergence in learning of mobile, wireless, individually-owned, handheld computers. Handschooling.com is created by Judy Breck, who describes her work in an interview by We_Magazine.

    We_Magazine interviews Judy Breck



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    About Findability

    As 21st century education adapts to its online future, the edu sector is learning to work under the network laws that make the best study knowledge findable. Findability emerges naturally from educational resources embedded in a network when these 7 elements are present.

    Digital - Educational materials that are printed are outside of the digital online commons where findability arises.

    Unbundled - Findability works bests with the smallest pieces of content, so bundles like curricula, courses, and PDFs stifle findabiity.

    Open - To be findable, content must be open in the one Web global commons, with no barriers of cost, subscription, or copyright.

    SEOed - Search Engine Optimization with keywords and linking attracts search engine spiders and boosts rankings on search engine results pages.

    Juiced - Webpages getting higher search engine page ranks from links by educators judging their content as superior.

    Networked - Nodes of learning content are syndicated (RSS), virally spread, and connected into social networks.

    Mobilized - Nodes of learning content are becoming findable to millions, and potentially billions, of new learners by being optimized for mobile phones.

    The learn nodes posted on this blog are models that show how you can increase findabiity for open educational resources.

  • The LEARN NODE is a tool for creating findability

    The illustration below shows a learn node, which you can use as an educator to make webpages more findable. The top little circles illustrate links out to content nodes related to the subject of the large circle. Bottom left, experts connect to the node affirming its quality - giving it juice. Bottom right, a student connects to the node to learn the subject of its content.

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    Blog posts are used to make learn nodes on this website. Click here for a primer on using a blog post to make a learn node. Any webpage with its own url can be used as a learn node.

    Visit GoldenSwamp.com for discussions of the way learning is emerging in the 21st century.

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Learnnodes.com and GoldenSwamp.com

These are sister blogs spotlighting key nodes for learning [learn nodes] within the internet’s most innovative, knowledge-rich, open content.

GoldenSwamp.com posts ideas and progress in engaging the internet for learning.

The internet swamp contains bountiful education gold. The posts on GoldenSwamp.com describe this phenomenon and urge education to embrace it. The learn nodes pointed to and clustered are created by individual experts, academic institutions, libraries and archives, business and government projects and laboratories, and other open online sources. For more on the meaning of Golden Swamp click here.

The learnodes.com website is a landing pages project which seeks to employ search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to drive traffic toward emergent education.

This blog shows you the richest digital-edge nodes for learning, individual and in clusters. At learnodes.com, in some instances, several nodes from a single subject are included in single posts, causing those posts to become small landing pages in the open internet for their subjects. Learnodes.com showcases nodes of learning content that include OERs — the open educational resources of universities and other teaching institutions.

GoldenSwamp.com and Learnodes.com are the work of Judy Breck — arguably the internet’s most persistent (1997-2009) learning node connective education advocate.

In the following 18-minute video interview with we_magazine is Judy discusses her basic open content concepts. This is the introduction to the interview at the magazine website:

Judy Breck, New York based expert in open content, is convinced that
“everything begins with the smallest unit, the individual. Like microlearning: ideas, meaning, and appropriate political action networks emerge as the patterning of micro nodes. Individual sovereignty is the unalienable civil right of each person.

The mobile computer can deliver what is known by humankind to each human node — each micro unit. The mobile device, unlike many school and social settings and networks, liberates the individual. The mobile device does not know or care about your color, eyes, or who is your daddy.”