Search Find Learn

Michelle Gallen's e-learning blog.

Why Search Find Learn?

Because I feel that Search, Find, Learn describes how we learn in the 21st century - we Search for what we need to know, we Find it, and we Learn it. This blog explores how technology is helping us do that.

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Humans have been on a learning journey since the dawn of time. And it's never been so exciting. If you're using technology in an effective, experimental or innovative way, I'd love to hear from you. I can blog about your project/website/idea, or you can contribute a guest post. Send me an email describing what you're up to.

Social Entrepreneurs Ireland

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Social Entrepreneurs Ireland recently announced their latest round of awards. These aren't sheeny shiny pieces of glass or metal that sit on your shelf. SEI offer generous cash awards to amazing projects that are making a real difference to people's futures, and Ireland's future.

This year, they awarded over €500,000 to three projects, including singer Frances Black, who set up The RISE Foundation in 2006. It helps families of addicts to understand the nature of the disease of addiction and the profound effects it has on relationships. The Foundation runs therapeutic and education programmes and seeks to tackle the stigma of having a loved one in addiction.

Dara Hogan set up Fledglings Early Years Education & Care after he identified a significant shortage of early year’s education places in Tallaght West. Through a social franchise model Dara has set up 4 sites creating over 150 early years education places and 38 jobs and plans further expansion.

The third award, the Bridge to College (B2C) programme, was created and developed by John Lawlor as he believes that the current education system in Ireland is failing to prepare students for a career in the smart economy. The B2C programme seeks to deliver a dynamic learning experience for young people based on a new model of team-based workshops and technology mediated learning.

Since launching in 2005 Social Entrepreneurs Ireland has made awards to 142 social entrepreneurs, directly investing over €3.47M into supporting exceptional individuals. These in turn have directly helped over 170,000 people and indirectly helped another 300,000 people.

I'm proud to say that Social Entrepreneurs Ireland helped talkirish.com with a Level 1 award back in 2009, and introduced me to a network of inspirational people.

Is your e-learning as attention grabbing as this?

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So I don't know how some Cebu Pacific Flight Attendants got permission to demonstrate their in-flight safety demonstration by dancing to Lady Gaga, but it's certainly attention-grabbing. Even worthy of applause. Over 3.6 million people have watched this online in just TWO days. Check it out below.



Now the academic part of my brain is saying to itself, ah now, but really, how EFFECTIVE was that learning? Was retention strong? Were the learning outcomes clearly assessed and measured?

All I can say to that is my learning and retention of in traditional flight safety demonstrations is probably dangerously poor. And that's despite years of repetition. To add insult to injury, I've been bored senseless during these demonstrations.

After watching this video, although I can't tell you which passenger action is a criminal offence, I have a very clear and funny memory of how to DO stuff. That sticks.

NB I would NOT like this type of demonstration on a red-eye flight.

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