Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. Unported License. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. Unported License. wikis privacy digital identity.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2015

Sharing content for free was amplified into popularity by the advent of the social networks. The likes of Friendster, and later MySpace, Bebo and Faceboook (some would argue that the BBS users were the first), promoted the idea that you could connect with those you knew, and you could share your thoughts with them. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. Either way, we tend to go where our friends are, and that changes over time.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 1, 2013

Is technology actually a threat to good learning, creating a generation of superficial learners, or do interactive tools such as social media and search engines provide us with unprecedented access to knowledge? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Lots of us use Twitter, and some of those out on the periphery may still be using Myspace or Bebo. What else do we need to learn about social networking that can help us or our students to learn better? Jonathan Rose has some interesting things to say about how social networking helps his off-line (for this read 'real life') world.

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Learning with e's

JULY 11, 2011

These statistics also fail to take into account all the other content that is being generated on, for example Flickr (more than 3000 images each minute ), Wikipedia, Facebook (3 billion photos and 20 million videos uploaded every month ), Myspace, Wiktionary, Vimeo, Picasa and innumerable other user generated content repositories.

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