Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2019

Then came telecommunications, telephones, computers and the internet to transform the ways we could communicate across great distances. And personal, mobile technologies come with a social cost. What are the implications of such mass distraction for the workplace, for home life, and indeed, for any social interactions?

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

In fact, human civilisation has been founded upon change, and without teamwork, collective action, social movements and group effort, much of that change would not have been achievable. Shirky also underlines the importance of one specific aspect of the internet - social media tools - as ''amplifiers'' of ideas and collective actions.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Thursday, October 01, 2009 Interview with Tony Karrer on Informal and Social Learning Be sure to listen to the latest Kineo podcast with Dr. Tony Karrer. Steve Lowenthal interviews Dr. Tony Karrer to get his thoughts on informal and social learning in the enterprise. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

With so much rich information for learners available and accessible on the Internet – everything from how to play the guitar to applications of the Pythagorean Theorem – how can the formal education system leverage all this within schools? 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media. Know why slim is in.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2011

The internet has literally changed our lives. Do you think this has a big social impact? Are these changes mostly discernible for internet researchers like you or do you think the people involved - teachers and students - are also aware of them? There are around 7.000 authors for the German Wikipedia edition. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We worked with the Star Schools project to connect over 300 schools in the US state of South Dakota, installing fast internet, satellite television and full motion interactive video into classrooms. Way back in 2002 I was involved in one of the largest distance education projects the world had seen at the time. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

It was the birthplace of Skype , and Estonians believe that using the Internet is a human right. In this presentation I will explore the use of MOOCs, AI, social media, smart mobiles, virtual worlds, augmented and virtual reality, as well as some of the emerging associated theories, to evaluate their effectiveness on pedagogy.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 3, 2018

But amidst all the springtime pranks and laughter, a serious point was also made on social media. Young adults, especially those studying in higher education, should also be given an education in what it means to discern the truth and detect lies on social media and the internet. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 19, 2013

Those of us who are immersed in a world where the use of social media is so sustained, embedded and familiar, forget that many schools still ban the use of Web 2.0 Common sense indeed, but I would also add that schools should encourage and permit children to help teachers co-create the e-safety and school policies on social media use.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

There is much debate about this question, especially with the advent of social media and services such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons , where anyone can contribute toward a global understanding of what we 'know'. What becomes of those 'elite experts' who were previously the gatekeepers of knowledge before the Internet?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

I was challenged by delegates at Solstice to elaborate on the legal and ethical issues of Creative Commons and other Copyleft approaches. Creative Commons, I explained, is a means of circumventing Internet Copyright constraints. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2013

Increasingly, the use of the Internet and other digital tools is coming under the scrutiny of researchers. Tara Brabazon for example argues that internet education is poisoning teaching and learning (see for example her book Digital Hemlock ) and builds the case for a return to more traditional values of education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 21, 2013

Swallow was born in Mexico, took up residence in the USA, and rapidly rose to prominence as a respected and influential guru in the world of social media. Swallow''s eagerly awaited book - entitled Imaginary Identities in the Age of the Internet - has been predicted to have such impact potential that it will define an entire generation.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The ability to repurpose, remix or otherwise reuse existing content is one of the key features of the social web. The ethos of the social web is that we share and share alike - why hoard knowledge or ideas if they can be of benefit to others? Why reinvent the wheel? All six currently available CC licence types are described here.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Learning how to use Twitter as a tool to develop your personal learning network is not always simple, and as with any other social networking tools, there is an unwritten protocol. Other devices for communication emerged such as emoticons, sideways smileys that were used to attempt to overcome the reduced social cues of text only talking.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 16, 2012

The Internet has taken the act of human contact and amplified it exponentially. We are witnessing a time where a mobile world wide web of connections is proliferating, and in which social mores, human relationships and communication conventions have been irrevocably changed. This is not hyperbole. But what does this mean for education?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2017

In this session I cover a range of new and emerging technologies such as voice controlled interfaces and gestural computing, the Internet of Things (pervasive computing), wearable technologies and artificial intelligence and speculate on what their impact might be on workbased learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2016

In a recently published article, my colleagues Maged Boulos, Dean Giustini and I write about how learning through social media is transforming medical practices, health care and education. Here's an excerpt from the article, published in the open access journal Future Internet. The full text is available at this link. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2015

The Internet is challenging this culture. The entire social web is founded on freely shared content. Prior to the social web, public sharing wasn''t that common a theme. Sharing content for free was amplified into popularity by the advent of the social networks. You don''t get something for nothing. van Dijk, J.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2013

One of the most persuasive affordances of social media is that it encourages users to generate their own content. Teachers who recognise this and see the potential of social media to promote active learning are in for an exciting time. Potentially, this is a pedagogical gold mine for teachers if they choose to dig a little deeper.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 21, 2015

One major phenomenon of the last decade has undoubtedly been the global and exponential rise of social media. Seeded at the turn of the century, the social web phase of Internet development promoted connections, participation, networked sociality. The social web truly is a powerful communication technology.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time.

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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2013

Today''s book recommendation is the fifth in the series: Howard Rheingold (2002) Smart Mobs: The next social revolution. I first read it whilst a new academic and still finding my way, and I read it in a time that pre-dated what we now know as social media. Photo by Biser Todorov (Wikimedia Commons). Cambridge, MA: Basic Books.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Copying of content is rampant, he warns, and 'the internet is a giant copying machine.' He recommends a major rethink, because the game has changed, and consumers who know how to use the internet are more empowered than they ever were. Leonhard believes the major social media platforms have it right. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. was about pushed content, and a 'sticky internet' where users could change very little, the evolution of the web into Web 2.0 and can expect to see forms of learning and social interaction advancing as a result.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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Mindflash

JANUARY 30, 2012

Avoiding distractions on the Internet comes down to having control and limiting your surfing. There are tools to help track your Internet use that could curb time wasted on those distracting social networking sites , and show you just how much time you are losing.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

What we learn in formalised settings such as school, college and university is merely the foundation of our knowledge and the rudimentary skill sets that enable us to build our own minds and construct meaning, through individual and social contexts later in life. Specifically, I mean personalised, handheld, internet enabled mobile computing.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 1, 2013

Carr's essential thesis is that we are bombarded with content on the Internet, and cope with this by reducing our depth of study whilst increasing our breadth of study. In other words, he argues, we tend to skim read and miss out on the richness of meaning we would have absorbed pre-internet. References Brabazon, T. Norton and Company.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Clearly this has already emerged as a phenomenon in the last few years, and since the proliferation of social media and smart mobiles , seems to be accelerating. Photo by Frederick Wallace on Flickr A learner''s curriculum by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2012

In yesterday's post I made the statement that the internet is better as a creative space than it is as a repository. Much of pre-social web based content was difficult to edit or change. Let me clarify this statement. The advent of Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2018

Image by Martin42 on Wikimedia Commons When I read Being Digital for the first time, way back in 1997, it slowly dawned on me that everything was about to change. The book was published in 1995, just as the Internet was beginning to invent for itself a space that previously had not existed. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 12, 2019

Alternatively, 'social constructivism' - at least in Vygotskiian terms - is the construction of personal meaning within a framework of social experience. Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky stressed the importance of language and culture, and argues that learning is socially mediated. Thank you for reading. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The United Kingdom is one of the richest countries in the world, and yet, in the second decade of the 21st Century, it still has one million children without access to computers and 2 million with no access to the Internet. The digital divide is real. This has always been one of the most trenchant problems with technology. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

It's a jaded expression now, but 'anytime, anyplace' learning is not only within the reach of most of us, for many it is in fact common place. Secondly, mobile technology is disruptive because it encourages creativity. Thirdly, mobile technology is powerfully social. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Increasingly, as we ask our learners to engage with social media as a part of their study, we are also asking them to leave a trace of themselves on the Web. Jenny talked not only of the benefits and potential of social media to enhance learning, but also gave a critical review of some of the issues and challenges. What are your views?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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