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MARCH 12, 2020

Photo by Pxhere At the time of writing, the Coronavirus pandemic is taking hold in many countries across the globe, and predictably, one of the many actions people are taking is social distancing. Plenty of Creative Commons licensed content and Open Educational Resource material is already available on the Web. Unported License.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Humans were once untethered, free to wander the world and explore at will. Notice the one person who is reading a traditional paper magazine - this is rare, but raises questions about how large populations can be distracted by technology. And personal, mobile technologies come with a social cost.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Photo by Pedro Figueras on Pexels In my last post I wrote about smartphones and other personal devices, and their tendency to distract us by diverting our attention. Distractions in the workplace are common. Yes, technology in the workplace can be indispensable. 2004) Distraction: Being Human in the Digital Age.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

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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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. 2004) Implicit Structure and Dynamics of Blogspace. and Lukose, R. and Knobel, M.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

In this paper, having revisited my previous speeches I''m going to try to gaze once more into the near future in an attempt to determine what education might look like in the light of the technological developments that comprise Web 2.0. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0 The Changing Web (2.0) O''Reilly, T. Wheeler, S.,

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The notion of wisdom of crowds put forward by James Surowiecki (2004) relies on people working together, even when they don''t know each other directly. When they finally meet in person, they feel they already know each other, even though their relationship has been mediated through text based messaging technology. Surowiecki, J.

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