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2009 Review

Experiencing eLearning

TCC09: Digital Storytelling in a Web 2.0 Looking at just the numbers, my number of views didn’t increase dramatically in 2009. Image Credit: cc licensed flickr photo shared by uhhhlaine. These are my top posts according to the social signals measured by eLearning Learning : Blogging in a Walled Garden. Why a Wiki?

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Digital tribes

Learning with e's

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. Unported License.

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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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Keeping up with (and verifying) digital badges and credentialing

CLO Magazine

During the early 2000s, badges expanded into the digital world. Foursquare, the social networking service, launched in 2009, and used badging as a marketing tactic to drive user engagement. In his address, Duncan emphasized how all types of learners can benefit from digital badging programs, including teachers. Szpiro said.

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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

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

Learning with e's

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. Unported License. Deleuze, G.

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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. 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).