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What students need

Learning with e's

Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro on Flickr This is the second of three posts on school Management Information Systems (MIS). Arguably one of children's most important needs is to know how well they are doing (Gardner, 2012) and this is where assessment for learning can play a key role. There is a solution to all of these challenges.

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A friend of a friend

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It was proposed that every person is no more than 6 social connections (or degrees of separation) away from anyone else on the planet. Back in 2012, I predicted that the era of social media would reduce that degrees of separation. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Share trading

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The entire social web is founded on freely shared content. Prior to the social web, public sharing wasn''t that common a theme. Sharing content for free was amplified into popularity by the advent of the social networks. creating community'' (Castells, 2012, p. creating community'' (Castells, 2012, p.

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The future of gaming

Learning with e's

Games, whether digital or analogue, have the capability to motivate learners, challenge them to improve their dexterity, problem solving and reasoning skills, encourage teamwork and collaboration (Nemerow, 1996) - especially social games such as World of Warcraft or Call of Duty - and performance is under constant peer review. Ellison, J.

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Standing alone

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She also protested strongly against their archaic laws on Facebook and other social media. blog courage Taliban social media Malala learning school Pakistan conviction free education for all' She wrote her blog for the BBC under a pseudonym, but unfortunately, the Taliban soon discovered her identity. Unported License.

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Opening up #learning: new forms of knowledge

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The social web opens up channels to connect with other people around the world, either experts or fellow students. In 2012, for the first time, the number of e-books sold over Amazon surpassed paper based books. But opening up learning comes with a price. Unported License.

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Tools I Use

Marcia Conner

Yesterday I participated in two fabulous webinars, each with a different focus, yet both with social learning themes. During each I was asked about some of the tools I use personally to get the most from social media–and ultimately learn as much as I can. I've made bold links to the primary social tools that I use.