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Digital Literacy in the Age of Information: Ensuring Credible Content

Kitaboo

If you’re an educator grappling with poor academic records of your wards, try to revamp your pedagogy by leveraging the prowess of innovative learning solutions that are up for grabs. Thus, we can carefully navigate through the social networking channels that are bound to make a difference.

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Very social software

Learning with e's

A veritable feast of articles on social media is appearing in the academic press at the moment. Two articles that have caught my eye deal with social software in education, and both have landed on my desk in the last few weeks. Social Software: new opportunities for challenging social inequalities in learning?

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. London: John Wiley and Sons. Delfino, M.,

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. For example, social media is encouraging learners not only to discover existing knowledge, it is also enabling them to create, repurpose, organise and share new knowledge.

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We Teach as We are Taught

Kapp Notes

In terms of pedagogy, much of the efforts during the current generation of teacher’s formative years were focused on the students as empty vessels to be filled with the wisdom of the instructor. New York: Teachers College Press. Instructors tend to teach in the same style and format in which they have been taught. Goodson (Ed.).

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

His work around the study of social and cognitive presence in distance learning contexts has been cited many times, and his research has led to a number of high profile keynote speech invitations around the globe. I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems.

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Why we learn more at play ? gamification and rewards for learning

Ed App

According to Harvard University’s Project Zero study on the ‘Pedagogy of Play,’ playful learning is characterised by choice, wonder and delight. The power and excitement generated from social recognition on leaderboards should not be underestimated. Towards a Pedagogy of Play: A Project Zero Working Paper. Ben Mardell et al.