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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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This belief was also the basis for the in Digital Natives and Immigrants theory (Prensky, 2001), a persistent discourse that has greatly influenced the thinking of educators in recent years. Bennett et al (2008) assert that there is no clear evidence that multi-tasking is a new phenomenon and exclusively the preserve of younger learners.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

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It prompted much debate and led to a number of publications which presented my thinking to a wider audience (Wheeler, 2000b; 2001). Photo by Felix Burton on Wikimedia Commons The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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All together now

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Today''s book recommendation is the fourth in the series: Clay Shirky (2008) Here Comes Everybody. The book features a number of examples of collective action using new tools, including the creation of the world''s largest repository of knowledge, Wikipedia , which didn''t even exist prior to 2001. For previous reviews start here.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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This belief was also the basis for the Digital Natives and Immigrants theory (Prensky, 2001), a persistent discourse that has greatly influenced the thinking of educators in recent years. Bennett et al (2008) also assert that there is no clear evidence that multi-tasking is a new phenomenon and exclusively the preserve of younger learners.

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A tale of two keynotes

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It prompted much debate and led to a number of publications which presented my thinking to a wider audience (Wheeler, 2000b; 2001). 2008) The Digital Classroom: Harnessing the Power of Technology for Learning and Teaching. 2001) Information and Communication Technology and the Changing Role of the Teacher. and Moonen, J.

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He's only me

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Clarke is involved (the astronaut image is lifted directly from the Stanley Kubrick film ' 2001: A Space Odyssey ' - an adaptation from one of Clarke's novels - the blue astronaut is the actor Keir Dullea ). He's only me by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 When Arthur C.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content. Year by Topic You can also go the other way to see things like selecting Twitter and you can see that the associated years are: 2009 2020 2008 2020?