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Digital tribes

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Communication, including speech, clothing and actions all serve to signal our cultural identities and group membership (Pahl and Rowsell, 2006). Such new literary practices of communication (Lankshear and Knobel, 2006) rely heavily on shared spaces, shared symbolism and the viral nature of the social web. and Lukose, R. and Knobel, M.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

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Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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I will attempt to contextualise these changes at the level of both organisation and individual, to provide a picture of how universities and teachers might manage their business in the coming decade. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M.

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Our mutual friends

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I''m gradually working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. This is number 28 in my series on learning theories. Previous posts in this series are all linked below.

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Down under

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Image by Hradcanska Down under by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 The session will outline an mlearning implementation strategy, and illustrative case studies. . The rest of my Down Under lecture tour can be found here on this site. Unported License.

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What you see is what you do

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Researchers point out that the split screen functionality on many IWBs supports aspects of differentiation, where students from mixed ability groups can work together or in parallel on the screen (Smith et al, 2006). It's clear that there is plenty of life left in large screen touch surfaces such as Interactive Whiteboards. Unported License.

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Opening up #learning: Access to knowledge

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Putnam's view of the Internet is similar to many other educators - it has provided unprecedented access to the world's knowledge. 2006) What are the affordances of technology? Based on the work of psychologist J.J. Gibson on perception, Ralph Putnam has identified four categories of technology affordances. Reference Putnam, R.

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