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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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Around the turn of the century we all began to be aware of a surge in the use of the Web for creating content. By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning Visions

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I started blogging in earnest in February 2006. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 I am now the VP of Learning Design for Kineo. A lot of really smart people were talking about some really interesting things and I wanted in! United States License.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). However, there is evidence that students begin to support each other when they share the same online space and have mutual goals to achieve.

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Work in progress

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A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. Nothing is permanent, content is iterative and everything is a work in progress. 2006) Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms. It's a fine balance.

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Making connections

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To be able to connect to others and to share ideas and content instantly, caught the imagination of many. Manuel Castells (2012) remarked on the autonomous nature of social media, and how ideas and other content can be amplified across vast networks, reaching huge audiences in seconds. Teachers need not feel isolated any longer.

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The industrialisation of learning

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Indeed, Robinson's 2006 TED talk video goes as far as to say that current schooling is stifling innovation and creativity, and squandering talent. Alvin Toffler (1980) describes a number of features that maintain the status quo in society, including synchronisation of behaviour, standardisation of content and maximisation of resources.

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The changing Web

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One of the greatest changes (and challenges) for education over the last few years has been the proliferation of user generated content. It truly is the ‘architecture of participation’ (Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural part of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). 2006) Introducing Web 2.0: