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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. They represent what is happening right here, right now, on the web. Are we seeing evidence for the end of creativity, or a new kind of artistry?

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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. 0 education Web 3.0 augmented reality semantic web virtual reality learning Web 2.0

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60 years ago today

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Today I have completed 60 orbits of the sun. The web arrived, and we found ourselves beginning to network across the globe, forming the first social networks. I began to experiment with satellite and video teleconferencing, which emerged from research I did during my teacher training. I have reached a milestone in my life.

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What we don't know

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The amount of new knowledge generated on the Web alone is staggering beyond belief. 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? How can we prepare for this? Unported License.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

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Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. In the 1990s we witnessed the rise of the Internet and the rapid proliferation of web based content. But most are not yet connected to the Web. It will come. Unported License.

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Who will survive?

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Then along came the World Wide Web. Wikipedia, the online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, hosts over 14 million articles on just about every subject under the sun. What we will see is a drastic pruning of the dead wood, to make way for new shoots of growth to emerge. Things changed, and they changed dramatically. Unported License.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

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Teaching en masse has emerged as a significant trend because of a lessening need to create co-present learning environments such as classrooms and lecture halls. It is now possible to find content on just about any subject under the sun, simply by searching and finding it on the Web. We are gazing into a very exciting future.