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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

Learning with e's

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. 2002) Smartmobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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What students need

Learning with e's

It's easy to become lost in a crowd, and in the past spotting individual students who are in trouble, and providing personal intervention, has been a challenge for schools (Blatchford et al, 2002). et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching. References Blatchford, P. Gardner, J. (Ed: Unported License.

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Tools for conviviality? Illich and social media

Learning with e's

Ivan Illich hoped for a time when the transmission model of education, or ''funnels'', would be replaced by ''educational webs'' - his notion of what we now recognise as social networks. What would Illich have made of the social web? It is unclear, because he died in 2002, just as Web 2.0 was emerging.

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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

CourseArc

With the first edition published in 2002, this book from Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. See our tool in action and then check back to our blog and social media feeds for additional resources and case studies on how our clients are using CourseArc to move their education and training programs online.

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Digital tribes and the network nation

Learning with e's

It is this ‘social glue’ - such mutual understandings and exchanges that occur on a daily basis – that holds together the basic building blocks of social life in which people simply ‘look out for each other’. 1902) Human Nature and the Social Order. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. and Passeron, J-C.

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Schools and online education

Learning with e's

Way back in 2002 I was involved in one of the largest distance education projects the world had seen at the time. We see many creative uses of personal technologies, such as games consoles, smart phones and e-readers, and social media can be used in a variety of ways to promote deeper engagement and reach. Unported License.

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Mobile gives the edge

Learning with e's

Thirdly, mobile technology is powerfully social. Access to powerful social media sites enables students to maintain perpetual contact with their peers, family and tutors, providing constant new opportunities to learn informally, on the move, and in many modes and formats. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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