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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

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? Secondly, they can inform and justify our professional practice as teachers.

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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

That's the power of the social network. All you are doing by advocating that Twitter groups are not necessary is imposing a structure upon the social web that should not be imposed. We want folksonomy not heirarchy. Don't impose rules on the social web. You are right that Twitter is not Facebook.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

What might a PKM program in your organization look like, and how can it leverage social networking tools? This panel shows how individuals and organizations are successfully implementing and gaining value from a PKM strategy that includes social networking tools. Social tools are changing our world and our enterprises.

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

It all started with a message on Twitter from @stephendale who stated: "A taxonomist: One who organizes information in ways that makes sense to content providers, rather than content users." There always has to be some organisation at an individual level, or there would be no folksonomy at the community level - all would remain chaotic.