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5 technologies to promote creative learning

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Ask your students to create icons or images representing these newly discovered senses. 3) Commons Touch: Ask students to submit two or three good quality images to Wikimedia Commons. Many people visit the site to find images of high quality that are copyright free. I bet you can come up with some more!

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Python's got legs!

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If you're a computing teacher your ears will prick up at this. Actually, if you're a teacher who's interested in anything to do with critical thinking, creativity or logical reasoning you should definitely be interested. If you're familiar with Purple Mash , you'll notice some similarities. Python definitely has legs.

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Remix culture and education

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Sometimes several works are combined or 'mashed up' to create new versions. In the digital age, where many have access to the participatory web such as social media, it is easier than ever to remix and mashup content. Photoshop is software that allows users to do the same thing with images. Unported License.

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Digital literacy 8: Repurposing content

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Most of my recent slide presentations are freely available on this Slideshare site , and I publish them under a Creative Commons license that allows others to download and use them either as complete slideshows, or to select individual slides that can be inserted into their own slideshows. Unported License. Unported License.

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Out of the window

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Here's a language lesson: Máš vokno (pronounced mash vokno ) is a colloquialism in Bohemia. Images from Bar Vokno The important thing to remember is that Vokno is a place to gather, to meet like minded people. In fact, parts of the seating area look more like a workshop than a bar (image left). Ever had that feeling?

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On-Demand is the Future of Online Learning

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to watch Friends or Mash or Dallas or The Love Boat. Just record it, show up late and start from the beginning. Make it completely voluntary and see if anyone shows up. Someday they won’t show up. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user D.Reichardt. Commercials? Embedded Learning.

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Digital literacy 9: Broadcasting yourself

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and Edupunk movements - the do it yourself culture in which costly proprietary systems and tools are spurned in favour of haphazard, unbranded, informal mashups and loose aggregations of tools. Traditional publishers are having to sit up and take notice - particularly to the open access movement. This is a characteristic of the Web 2.0

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