Blended Learning Index

You might call Boston the capital of f2f learning with its pedigree of physical campuses (Harvard, Boston University, MIT, Northeastern, Suffolk, etc.) yet it also seems to me ideal for a blended learning environment. The elements of a good blended environment include:

-- Human capital including those with good learning and technology skills
--Collaborative environment (Facebook was created in this milieu, as Boston is ripe with young people with a social agenda and the need to interface).
--Good public transpiration, so people can move around
--content rich environments, like museums, capital building, libraries, freedom trail, etc.
--Complex grids, paradoxes in the way things are done, creating environment for questions and various narratives.
--Wifi and strong public access to computing technology

Learning Vitamins

Prompt/Precognition process, as with reading a question about French Revolution and then having your mind make connections via subconscious, etc. Patterns are found.

Reflective Observation -- David Kolb

Learning organizations -- what they look like/feel like --teach for understanding, not judgement. Problems are solved through understanding rather than judgement.

Experimental -- taking/rewarding appropriate risks.

Learning as being the invitation of the uninvited guest.