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What students need

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Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro on Flickr This is the second of three posts on school Management Information Systems (MIS). Schools also need relevant information about how well their students are progressing. References Blatchford, P. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching. Gardner, J. (Ed:

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Digital tribes and the network nation

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons I will argue here that within the present information age, where digital communication technologies have fractured the tyranny of distance beyond repair, and where computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital (Bordieu and Passeron, 1990).

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Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

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They show that never before has access to information and people been so easy and so widespread, and that we make connections with people who can help us manage, organize, disseminate and make sense of the resources. References Brabazon, T. 2002) Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching. Brabazon, T.

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Mobile gives the edge

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For everyone of us who own them, mobile phones are changing our lives, influencing our decisions about how we interact with each other, how we access and consume information, how we work, entertain ourselves and purchase our goods. References Agar, J. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. London: Futuretext Ltd.

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Doing and knowing

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It takes only a few seconds to cross reference these facts with another website. This is information that the map on my office wall could not provide me, and information that I probably won''t remember for long. References Brabazon, T. 2002) Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching.

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Learning on the move

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I cited Puro (2002) who declared: 'The mobile phone. is a new kind of stage where the mobile information society is acted out'. Does SMS text (the unorthodox spelling, or 'squeeze text' imposed by a limit of 160 characters) cause informal language to spill over into formal contexts? References Crystal, D. Fortunati, L.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

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I argued that due to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) that traditional student catchment areas would begin to disappear or become less obvious (the death of distance) and recommended that universities turn their attention to blended and distance methods to broaden and extend their reach (the distributed model).

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