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Global digital tribe

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To me it resembles a global digital tribe. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice. The global digital tribe has many smaller sub-sets we can call clans. It is your personal network. It is your virtual community. Call it what you wish.

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Future sense

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Predicting the future is a very risky business, because it hasn't happened yet. Future sense by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Balancing act

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It's the same globally for all those involved in the business of education. Balancing act by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 2008) CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age. Unported License.

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Mapping mobile learning

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We see this happening on a global scale through increasing mobile phone subscriptions. The Mobile World Congress predicts that as early as 2014, mobile phone subscriptions will outstrip the global population (~7.9 What will happen if your school or business ignores the huge potential of these tools to promote learning?

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Selfie number 2

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Eventually, he would go on to establish what arguably became him crowning achievement - the One Laptop Per Child project, which has had such wide reaching impact on global education. One of the significant statements Negroponte made in Being Digital was that everything (and he meant everything) was being transformed from atoms to bits.

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Digital is default

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The following year I joined a ground breaking project in which my team set up digital learning spaces for businesses and individuals in hard-to-reach rural areas that until then had no infrastructure. The book was published in 1995, just as the Internet was beginning to invent for itself a space that previously had not existed.

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60 years ago today

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The 10s have been equally busy for me. Image from Wikimedia Commons 60 years ago today by Steve Wheeler was written in Jonkoping, Sweden and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 It all began a long time ago. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.