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5 technologies to promote creative learning

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To complete this task students must first understand and appreciate what the non-traditional senses are and how they are used, and then use their creativity to depict them accurately.] The latter option is more advanced and problematic, because many of the commonly known topics are already well covered on Wikipedia. Unported License.

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UnGoogleable questions again

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Photo by Steve Wheeler Recently I posted a challenge in response to a question about lack of student engagement. Just like Wikipedia, we can use the unGoogleable question to create a launching pad into more serious enquiry. It was to solve an unGoogleable question. It's no surprise then that many think that everything can be Googled.

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Giant leaps

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Photo by NASA on Wikimedia Commons This week we celebrate 50 years since the launch of Apollo 11. Source: Wikipedia) Video Analysis Intergraph Government Solutions developed its Video Analyst System (VAS) by building on Video Image Stabilization and Registration (VISAR) technology created by NASA to help analyse video footage.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. Connected pedagogy: Social networks by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Tapscott, D.

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The EDEN interviews: Melissa Highton

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Several exciting ideas feature in the discussion, including Wikipedia editathons, where pages on specific subjects are intensively researched and edited during a session, to improve and update their content. Listen in as we discuss these and many more ideas about the future of learning and education. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning theories for the digital age

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How can we for example describe learning activities such as blogging, social networking, crowd sourced learning, or user generated content such as Wikipedia and YouTube using older theories? Or can they work together with the new theories to provide us with a basis to understand what is happening. I will be interested in your views.

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Our viral web

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In an interesting episode last year, I personally experienced the power of the viral web through Wikipedia Commons. The next day I posted his picture onto my Flickr account and licenced it under Creative Commons for free sharing and re-use. Subsequently others loaded it up in several versions to Wikimedia Commons.

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