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Digital tribes

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Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. This is a repost from my 2009 blog series on the same subject. and Lukose, R. Unported License.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position.

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Global digital tribe

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To me it resembles a global digital tribe. Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Tribal identity in the age of the Web transcends ethnicity, traditional cultural expectations and geography (Wheeler, 2009). Call it what you wish.

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Theories for the digital age: Postmodern perspectives

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Postmodernist views of society can be appropriated as lenses to analyse the personalised use of digital technology. Again, this is reminiscent of the random searching, scanning and jumping around content through hyperlinking that learners participate in when they traverse the digital landscape. Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. Many writers have highlighted the power of the global digital tribe , particularly the way groups tend to solve problems more effectively than individual experts (Surowiecki, 2009).

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position.

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Writes of passage

Learning with e's

Gunther Kress extends the notion of literacy to encompass multimodality - the means through which people widely adapt their use of text and speech through the use of multiple new digital media and technologies. 2009) Literacy in the New Media Age. 2015) Learning with 'e's: Educational theory and practice in the digital age.

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