Mutant Learning

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• A Zombie Learner says, “I don’t care.”

• They are not producing or consuming— they are decomposing.

• They have no desire to explore and spend little to no effort learning new things or opening themselves up to new technologies of learning.

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erLearner• This learner thinks, “I want to know.”

• These are the active consumers.

• This is how most of us learn everyday. We seek knowledge – finding it, reading it, and internalizing it.

• The means through which we gain knowledge has increased and dramatically changed due to technological, mobile, and wireless advances.

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conversation by asking, “Do you know?”

• They are dynamic consumers of knowledge.

• They instigate, prod, stir, and then wait to see what answers they get.

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erWanderer• This learner says, “Look what I

found.”

• They are an active contributor to the online learning community.

• A wanderer is someone who stumbles upon an interesting source of knowledge somewhere on the web and then shares it on Twitter, Facebook, or another online community.

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orCreator• This learner says, “I will do it.”

• They are dynamic contributors of knowledge.

• Creators can answer questions confidently and respond with YouTube, or blog, or other community post.

• Without these dynamic contributors the perpetual growth and value of online mutant communities would die.

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Facilitating Learning

Socialise Specialise Collaborate

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Push Pull Retrieve

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15 X 5 Rule Block it out Stick to it

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Scan Many Review Some Study the Few

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Duplicate Amalgamate Innovate

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Mutant Learning Conceptsby Soozie Bea (Susannah Brown) is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Content developed from: How to Develop a Social Learning Lab by Lime Green Labs

Includes pictures of:POP Vinyl Bobblehead Toys (which are awesome)and other freely available icons