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What students need

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It's easy to become lost in a crowd, and in the past spotting individual students who are in trouble, and providing personal intervention, has been a challenge for schools (Blatchford et al, 2002). et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching. Unported License. Unported License. References Blatchford, P.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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Mobile and personal technologies that are connected to global networks have afforded us with the priceless ability to collaborate and cooperate in new and inventive ways (Rheingold, 2002), and allow us to rapidly self organise into new collective forces (Tapscott and Williams, 2008). 2002) Smartmobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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Schools and online education

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Way back in 2002 I was involved in one of the largest distance education projects the world had seen at the time. Tomorrow: 3 key questions for the future of online education Schools and online education by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Digital tribes and the network nation

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Howard Rheingold (2002) applies this ‘theory of being’ to the use of short message service (SMS) texting by young people – who they send texts to, and receive them from, defines an element of their social identity, as constructed by themselves in relation to the others in their SMS circle of communication. Unported License. Goffman, E.

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Winter is here

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The sudden increase in births from 2002 onwards is largely responsible for this trend, and this was an expected rise. Winter is here by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

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User generated content has also attracted criticism over issues of mediocrity, lack of accuracy and superficial scholarship (Brabazon, 2002; 2007). 2002) Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching. Unported License. References Brabazon, T. University of South Wales, Australia. Brabazon, T.

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Mobile gives the edge

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Howard Rheingold argued as early as 2002 that mobile phones harness the 'power of the many', which has manifested itself in recent years in social phenomena such as citizen journalism, flash mobs and crowd sourced funding projects to name just a few. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Unported License. Rheingold, H.

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