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Just for me learning

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Clearly there are security and privacy issues to be addressed, but another trend is that learning is now becoming more untethered and we are witnessing a decline in the use of training rooms. We have come a long way since the 'Just in Case' curriculum. Just for Me' learning will epitomise the next decade of learning and development.

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Learning and teaching with Twitter

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What do we do about maintenance of confidentiality, privacy and the need to protect kids from internet predators? It relates to the need to persist with the tool so that you give it enough time to build up a critical mass of followers and followed, ensuring that your personal learning network (PLN) becomes effective. Unported License.

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The drama of Facebook

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The world''s largest and most successful social network, Facebook - celebrated its tenth anniversary in February 2014. Because Facebook is generally a public space that can be manipulated and ''controlled'' by privacy settings, many Facebook users may indeed be in a more private space with their ''friends''. Unported License.

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New spaces, new pedagogies

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They can easily connect into and maintain contact with multiple communities of interest, gaining access to experts using social networking tools such as Myspace and Facebook. Image source New spaces, new pedagogies by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Watch your back!

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One of the important skills I identified in a previous post on digital literacies is how people manage and protect their privacy. Indeed, each of us is vulnerable because there is a huge potential for our privacy to be breached in any online environment. This begs the question - can any of us protect our privacy on the web?

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Smartphones in mobile healthcare

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Among the surveyed apps are those assisting in chronic disease management, whether as standalone apps or part of a BAN (Body Area Network) and remote server configuration. cost, network bandwidth and battery power efficiency, usability, privacy issues, etc.), as well as some workarounds to mitigate those barriers.

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Getting the bloggers to write

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Instead, I'll let Liz Dwyer answer: 'Concerns about online privacy have historically made teachers wary of allowing students to blog, but the rise of platforms built specifically for students has made blogging safer for kids of all ages. Well, I could answer here and now, but I won't. Unported License.