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Nothing new under the sun

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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9 "In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. Are we seeing evidence for the end of creativity, or a new kind of artistry? Is there a derivative nature to creativity as Ferguson claims?

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The realms of possibility

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And yet such people brought us an understanding that the earth orbits the sun, time is relative, computers can do more for us than mere calculations, and much more. At the time they may be despised or ignored, but later when the idea emerges as extremely useful, they are revered. Unported License.

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

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I have written a lot about Personal Learning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. Photo by Jourixia on Deviant Art Up close and personal by Steve Wheeler was written in Preston, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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60 years ago today

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Today I have completed 60 orbits of the sun. I began to experiment with satellite and video teleconferencing, which emerged from research I did during my teacher training. The 00s was a time of more rapid change, where we witnessed the emergence of the social web, and mobile phones became smart. It all began a long time ago.

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eXtending the Web

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eXtending the Web - New and Emerging Learning Technologies View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. While I talked, as if by magic, the sun removed itself from Australia and New Zealand and reappeared outside my window. eXtending the Web by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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What we don't know

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Why is the sun 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times further away, thus appearing to be exactly the same size and producing perfect solar eclipses every time? We can''t begin thinking about them, because they haven''t yet emerged into existence and therefore we are yet to be aware of them. Is there life on other planets?

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Who will survive?

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Wikipedia, the online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, hosts over 14 million articles on just about every subject under the sun. Fortunately, new models of education are now emerging, many of which avoid content and instruction, and instead focus on expertise, tutoring, mentoring, guidance and specialism. Unported License.