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Exploring medical technologies

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We made certain that every one of our jointly authored papers was published in high-profile open access journals, and this helped to ensure wide availability of our work to the medical and education communities. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Games for girls

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There is nothing to stop students going farther and publishing their work in mainstream journals - if their work is good enough it should be shared widely. Some of my previous students have published in journals in the past few years. Many have some great ideas to share, and we encourage student blogging very strongly in Plymouth.

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Communication and learning in a digital age

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The latest issue of the online open journal eLearn Centre Research Paper Series has just been published. Image source Communication and learning in a digital age by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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Arguably the most useful explanatory framework for current online activities is offered by White and Le Cornu (2011), who have argued that habitual use of technology develops sophisticated digital skills regardless of the age or birth date of the user. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26, (3), 344–356. References Bennett, S.,

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Through a child's eyes

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She shows that when a human face is present with an object, infants become more interested in the object and examine it more closely (Wu et al, 2011). Journal of Cell Science, 121, 1771. 2011) Infants learn about objects from statistics and people. References Schwartz, M. 2008) The importance of stupidity in scientific research.

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An audience with.

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I worked alongside them and we soon had our first success, when one of my BA students, Dan Kennedy was successful in publishing his work in an online open access journal called The Student Educator. The journal had been previously set up as a showcase for the best student writing in Plymouth University. Unported License.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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icts have long characterised popular understandings of societal progression, adults should not feel threatened by younger generations’ engagements with digital technologies, any more than young people should feel constrained by the “pre-digital” structures of older generations’ (Selwyn, 2011, p. 2011) The Digital Native: Myth and Reality.

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