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Digital tribes

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Communication, including speech, clothing and actions all serve to signal our cultural identities and group membership (Pahl and Rowsell, 2006). Memes carry no specific rules, but in effect are adopted and shared around by the tribe as a means of perpetuating that culture. Cultural transmission is the communication of ideas.

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Passion for education

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Effective pedagogy not only has impact, it's contagious. This process promotes 'a different way of being' teachers (Bolton, 2006). 2006) Reflective Practice. Passion for 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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Online, en masse

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In MMORPGs, clans can identify themselves further by developing their own virtual territories, building businesses, and earning virtual currency (Childress and Brasswell, 2006). The traders and the consumers are a reflection of real life, so in effect, in-world experience mirrors our observations of real life. and Brasswell, R.

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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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The changing Web

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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). has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). 2006) Introducing Web 2.0: and Purdon, M.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

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I went on to suggest that teachers needed to modify their classroom management, curriculum design, resources development, assessment and evaluation methods and communication techniques, if they were to remain effective and responsive practitioners. and Wheeler, S. London: Routledge. McConnell, D. E-Learning Groups and Communities. Wheeler, S.

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Is technology killing the art of conversation?

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Lankshear and Knobel talk about new and emerging media literacies (2006) that do not replace traditional literacies such as speaking and listening, but extend and enhance them. The same applies to any distance conversation (but we are already used to some of these effects because of a century or more of telephone use). London: Penguin.