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Tools for conviviality? Illich and social media

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10) Social media, especially those that enable users to create and share content, fall into the category of tools that are worked by us. To what extent social media and other technologies might be able to play a role in the transformation of the centralised, state funded education system remains to be seen. Unported License.

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Taking up residence

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It has become a convenient excuse for many, who then feel free to dismiss their own involvement in the use of new media, whilst simultaneously overestimating the abilities of their students. They may not be such regular users of Facebook , so are more likely to be visitors rather than residents within that particular social media environment.

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Better together

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Photo by US Dept of Agriculture on Flickr Social learning is one of the vital components of contemporary learning and development. Personal technology and social media can support social learning in the workplace, and make it a reality no matter the size of an organisation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Writes of passage

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Photo by Nick Morrison on unsplash Language, like all forms of human communication, tends to evolve as each new generation uses it. Gunther Kress extends the notion of literacy to encompass multimodality - the means through which people widely adapt their use of text and speech through the use of multiple new digital media and technologies.

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Is sharing caring? #OpenBlog19

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Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. Unported License. It's still a buzz, I can tell you. Is sharing caring?

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Learning is changing

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Then along came the printing press and within a short time, mass literacy was achieved, books because widely accessible, and ordinary people were able to create their own personal libraries at home. He argues that our ability to use social media to connect with, and learn from, world class experts is unprecedented, and he is right.

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Our mutual friends

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So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Social media can reduce the degrees of separation. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press.