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Slaying giants

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Futurist Gerd Leonhard speaking at Learning Technologies 2013 Listening to media futurist Gerd Leonhard speaking at the recent Learning Technologies Conference in London was both engaging and thought provoking. Leonhard believes the major social media platforms have it right. Unported License.

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Share trading

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The arrival of Creative Commons licensing made free sharing a more attractive proposition for everyone. As van Dijk (2013) has proposed, the ready acceptance of Facebook and other social media into the every day lives of a global population of users ensured that the ethos of sharing became second nature.

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Shifting sands

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In the keynote delivered to the INTO Staff Conference at Newcastle University on midsummer day - 21 June, 2013 - I will explore new technologies and new pedagogies, and offer some evaluation of some of the new digital age learning theories. education social media self organised learning learning digital technology connectivisn'

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Is the ivory tower crumbling?

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That portion grew to 47% by 2013. What would have happened if Jimmy Wales had been overruled by his colleagues, and Wikipedia had been exclusively a knowledge repository populated by credentialled academics and scholars? What if talented and knowledgeable lay-people had been excluded from contributing to Wikipedia?

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