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Remix culture and education

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Sometimes several works are combined or 'mashed up' to create new versions. In the digital age, where many have access to the participatory web such as social media, it is easier than ever to remix and mashup content. Remixing is a creative process. Remixing is a human pastime that has existed for millennia.

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Out of the window

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Here's a language lesson: Máš vokno (pronounced mash vokno ) is a colloquialism in Bohemia. Everything about the place is alternative - the music, the drinks, the food, the decor. Out of the window Steve Wheeler was written in Liberec, Czech Republic and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Digital literacy 8: Repurposing content

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Most of my recent slide presentations are freely available on this Slideshare site , and I publish them under a Creative Commons license that allows others to download and use them either as complete slideshows, or to select individual slides that can be inserted into their own slideshows. Unported License.

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Digital literacy 9: Broadcasting yourself

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and Edupunk movements - the do it yourself culture in which costly proprietary systems and tools are spurned in favour of haphazard, unbranded, informal mashups and loose aggregations of tools. The music industry has had to learn the hard way that it no longer has the monopoly on music production and distribution.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

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Groom's popular and anarchic blog Bavatuesdays is a regular port of call for all those seeking this kind of eclectic and irreverent mashup of concepts, thoughts and opinions. It returns to the EDUPUNK ethos where instead of resisting the chaos, we engage with it, opening up a pedagogy of uncertainty, in a do-it-yourself style education.

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Maslow, technology and learning

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I love a good mash-up. But a mash-up takes several ideas, formats or sources and places them together in a new form, to say something new. It's creative and it's often thought provoking. It's a digital age version of synthesis. That's why I like it. What about Fitbits and other health related wearable technologies?

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