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5 technologies to promote creative learning

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2) Wiki''d Writing: Ask your students (in small groups or on their own) to either edit an existing Wikipedia page, or create a new one on a topic not yet covered. The latter option is more advanced and problematic, because many of the commonly known topics are already well covered on Wikipedia. I bet you can come up with some more!

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Remix culture and education

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Sometimes several works are combined or 'mashed up' to create new versions. One of the most widespread examples of digital remix is Wikipedia. The appeal of Wikipedia and also any digital remix is that it is never complete. Unported License. Remixing is a human pastime that has existed for millennia.

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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. How much more could we say about the uses of technology when we place them up against a pre-digital age theory such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs model? Unported License.

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