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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. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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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. Reference Castells, M.

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Doing and knowing

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Thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that Saipan is an island in the Marianas, south of Japan, and that it is a part of the Commonwealth of the US, with a population of close to 50,000 people. Ed: 2013) Knowmad Society. I searched for some time but without success (the typeface was too small), before resorting to Google Maps. Moravec, J. (Ed:

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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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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. We can no longer afford to teach in the same ways as we were taught. Unported License.