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Digital tribes

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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. Cultural transmission is the communication of ideas.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

I was involved for example in documenting the early trials of laser surgery, Lithotripsy and Transurethral resection of prostate surgery, ultrasonic surgical aspirators and initial research into skin cloning (tissue culture) for burns victims in UK hospitals. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Online, en masse

Learning with e's

Photo by William White on unsplash Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online. Tomorrow: The Tribal Web Reference Childress, M.

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Theories for the digital age: Connectivism

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Much of this learning is informal, (Commentators such as Cofer (2000), Cross (2006) and Dobbs (2000) place the proportion of informal learning at around 70%) and is also generally location independent. Clearly our social and cultural worlds are influenced by new technology, but are there also biological implications? Unported License.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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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. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006.

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Making connections

Learning with e's

Van Dijck (2013) calls this phenomenon the culture of connectivity , but it has been spoken of by many others including Jenkins (2006) who argued that the prevailing culture was convergence - where old and new media combined to create new and distinctly different social contexts. References Castells, M. Cambridge: Polity Press.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

Learning Visions

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences? Is there something cultural going on? I never thought about the cultural differences in audio usage. But again, thats only my experience – like Kate, I would not want to make assumptions about cultural differences based on that observation.

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