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Nothing new under the sun

Learning with e's

"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. Is there a derivative nature to creativity as Ferguson claims? What does this mean for originality and for the future of self expression?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems

Learning Visions

Thursday, December 06, 2007 eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems The eLearning Guild hosted a webinar this afternoon featuring the winners of The eLearning DemoFest which took place at the DevLearn Conference & Expo on November 7, 2007. Sun added a lot of page-level restrictions. She saw the first two presenters.

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The sun sets on Becta

Learning with e's

Since its inception, Becta has been responsible for advising schools and colleges throughout the UK on how best to maximise the potential of ICT - information and communication technologies - in teaching and learning. This work by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with e's

I attended the first ever Personal Learning Environments conference in Barcelona, about 5 years ago, and spent three glorious days in the sun, learning from others about the PLE and how it would revolutionise learning. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

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. All of the museum exhibits have information embedded within them. The longer the child stands holding up the device, the more information will be sent. The system is context aware.

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Who will survive?

Learning with e's

It is abundant, and although questions still remain over the accuracy and provenance of some content, much is usable and useful for informal learning. Wikipedia, the online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, hosts over 14 million articles on just about every subject under the sun. In the age of social media, content is no longer scarce.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with e's

With the advent of personal learning networks (PLNs) and social media, people everywhere are now able to learn more or less informally without any connection to university or college. It is now possible to find content on just about any subject under the sun, simply by searching and finding it on the Web. Far from it. Unported License.