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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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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. Consumers of Web based content tend to search randomly and nomadically, due to the multi-layered, multi-directional nature of hyperlinked media and this aligns neatly with some post modern theory. Cormier, D. Deleuze, G.

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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. and Rowsell, J.

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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

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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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Is technology killing the art of conversation?

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This is echoed by Kress (2009) who holds that new technologies are encouraging new forms of literacy and communication. My own research shows similarly that digital literacies allow us to extend our communication repertoire, enabling us to interact powerfully in new digital environments (Wheeler, 2015). References Kress, G.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Charlie Goes to Digital Mountain

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Charlie Goes to Digital Mountain Check out this great slideshow created by Scott Gavin posted over at RandomMind. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0