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Remix culture and education

Learning with e's

Since then, several have asked me what I mean by remix culture, and how it applies to education. In popular culture, folk songs and stories, often with no traceable origin, have been sung or told, and then retold across the generations. One of the most widespread examples of digital remix is Wikipedia. Unported License.

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Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace.

Dashe & Thomson

All the cool kids on the adult learning block are enthralled with ‘Peer-to-Peer Learning’ and ‘The Emergence of the Collective’, phrases used by Brown and Thomas in A New Culture of Learning. Going back to Brown and Thomas’ A New Culture of Learning , “students themselves are taking an active role in helping to create and mold [learning].”

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100 Twitter accounts for Philomaths (Lovers of Learning)

Jane Hart

Wikipedia). About World Languages : @aboutworldlangs Providing information and cultural awareness about languages around the world. History & Culture. Quotes : @quotes Inspirational quotes from the world of books, history and popular culture. A philomath is a lover of learning. Biography.com : @Bio People.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

CourseArc

Image of MLK w/ Link to Wikipedia]. Colors also have a range of associations (like red could mean danger and love), and can vary culturally. suspenseful music ?. Picture of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Martin Luther King, Jr. . Image of MLK with Caption]. Null/Empty. Martin Luther King, Jr. . Audio Transcript.

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Resistance is futile

Learning with e's

It took a great deal of effort to introduce the new computers into such a conservative learning culture. Another area that has been disrupted is music. Wikipedia is yet another example of disruptive innovation. This reflects my own experience, from the time I introduced BBC computers into nurse training in hospitals in 1982.

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Share trading

Learning with e's

The Internet is challenging this culture. Later, you were able to share your photographs, and other content such as music or video with your friends and family, and see the content they shared with you. The educational implications of social media culture are clear. I''ll trade you. You don''t get something for nothing.

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A Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training

Litmos

According to wikipedia:“If computerized automation increased factory production, it could do the same for academic instruction.”. It was a time of flannel shirts, grunge music, OJ Simpson, The Rachel hair style, Sony Playstation, Linux, the World Wide Web, and CBT transitioning to WBT. Corporate Training in the 1990 ’s.

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