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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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The idea that we are all members of various digital tribes, and that we gather around digital totems such as YouTube, Wikipedia and eBay, shows that connected extends beyond learning, to entertainment, commerce and culture. Unported License. Tapscott, D. and Williams, A (2008) Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

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Cinderella technology?

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In the popular folk tale, Cinderella is described on Wikipedia as: ". The latter seem not to have made connections between the affordances of the IWB and authentic, situated pedagogy. In short, one of the significant issues around the use of IWBs has been a lack of transfer of the tool into effective pedagogy. Unported License.

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Learning theories for the digital age

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I pointed out recently that many of the older theories of pedagogy were formulated in a pre-digital age. How can we for example describe learning activities such as blogging, social networking, crowd sourced learning, or user generated content such as Wikipedia and YouTube using older theories? Unported License.

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Curiosity, cognition and content

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There is much debate about this question, especially with the advent of social media and services such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons , where anyone can contribute toward a global understanding of what we 'know'. Unported License. What questions and challenges would you pose that are relevant to education today?

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Shifting sands

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Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. Photo by Steve Wheeler Shifting sands by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Who will survive?

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Wikipedia, the online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, hosts over 14 million articles on just about every subject under the sun. They will be institutions that can clearly discern the connections between learning and business, between technology and pedagogy, between individuals and society. Unported License.

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Discursive or recursive? The fractal nature of education

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Mathematicians will understand the explanation below from Wikipedia, but the rest of us might struggle: The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers 'c' for which the sequence (c, c² + c, (c²+c)² + c, ((c²+c)²+c)² + c, (((c²+c)²+c)²+c)² + c,) does not approach infinity. Unported License.