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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal. They also have the capacity to support personal learning.

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Connected pedagogy: Shared minds

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From the telegraph, through the telephone and radio and television, to 21st Century satellites, smartphones, the Internet and social media, all were designed to communicate. When people connect using technology, they seek out commonalities and look for shared experiences. At a human level, sharing is particularly important.

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Disruptive education

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Earlier today at the EDEN Annual Conference at the University of Oslo, I interviewed June Breivik. This post is mirrored on the official EDEN Conference blog Disruptive education by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Making a splash!

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Image by Craig Whitehead on Unsplash While in conversation last week at the EDEN annual conference in Bruges, my good friend Marci Powell told me about a brilliant resource called Unsplash. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. See Failure of Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning? Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0 Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

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EDENTube

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I have hosted more than 2 dozen for EDEN over the last few years at conferences in Spain, Norway, Hungary and Sweden. EDENTube by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 It was fun, but I think I know which side of the microphone I prefer.

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12 tips for great speaking

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Photo by Tup Wanders on Flickr In my previous post , I reflected on 18 years of keynote speaking in academic conferences. If you are lucky enough to be invited to address an audience of your peers at a conference, a lot will depend on what you say and the manner in which you say it. In nearly two decades, I guess you learn quite a lot.

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