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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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The idea that we are all members of various digital tribes, and that we gather around digital totems such as YouTube, Wikipedia and eBay, shows that connected extends beyond learning, to entertainment, commerce and culture. It also affords us a connected mentality, where we expect to be members of communities that are distributed.

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Cinderella technology?

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In the popular folk tale, Cinderella is described on Wikipedia as: ". The latter seem not to have made connections between the affordances of the IWB and authentic, situated pedagogy. In short, one of the significant issues around the use of IWBs has been a lack of transfer of the tool into effective pedagogy.

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Shifting sands

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Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. Someone once remarked that the lecture is the most effective way to transfer a lecturer''s notes into a student''s notes without having to pass through two minds first.

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Content as curriculum?

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Content is still very much king in schools, because 'content as curriculum' is easy and cost effective to deliver, and that is what most governments require and impose. Contemporary pedagogy is only effective if there is a clear understanding of the power and efficacy of the tools that are available. Unported License.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

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Groom made several key points around the process of 'uneducation' (borrowed from Brian Lamb) where he talked about 'descent into the maelstrom' - an account of effects of modern networked communication on professional practice. His keynote speech at EDEN 2015 started in anarchic, Robin Williams style 'Good morning Barcelona!!' Cue applause.

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From EDUPUNK to ds106. 10Q: Jim Groom

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You can learn just about anything thanks to YouTube and Wikipedia. What is on your horizon for new technology, new ways of learning and new pedagogies? Namely, how can we most effectively integrate the web into education, because I strongly believe teaching and learning can be that much cooler when it''s done well.