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Digital beings

Learning with e's

Such dichotomous contexts would necessitate the rethinking of social rules, relationships, privacy, ownership and copyright, legal rulings, and just about everything else we were comfortable with. Wikipedia, YouTube and a host of other social media platforms are examples of this switch. Unported License.

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Rewired, not fade away

Learning with e's

That's what tools such as Wikipedia do, you see. Photo by Tom Swift Rewired, not fade away by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 They democratise knowledge. My final thought: An important rule of research is - don't make assumptions, or in other words don't be biased.

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From EDUPUNK to ds106. 10Q: Jim Groom

Learning with e's

You can learn just about anything thanks to YouTube and Wikipedia. 10Q: Jim Groom by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 That said, the state of education has never been greater as a result of the haphazard connections made possible by the web. It''s actually horrible.