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What students need

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Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro on Flickr This is the second of three posts on school Management Information Systems (MIS). It's easy to become lost in a crowd, and in the past spotting individual students who are in trouble, and providing personal intervention, has been a challenge for schools (Blatchford et al, 2002). Gardner, J. (Ed:

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. 2002) Smartmobs: The Next Social Revolution. I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach.

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Schools and online education

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Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Way back in 2002 I was involved in one of the largest distance education projects the world had seen at the time. Please post them in the comments box below. Unported License.

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Digital tribes and the network nation

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons I will argue here that within the present information age, where digital communication technologies have fractured the tyranny of distance beyond repair, and where computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital (Bordieu and Passeron, 1990).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Photo by Felix Burton on Wikimedia Commons The survival of higher education (2): Changing times by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 BMC Medical Education 6, 41. O''Reilly, T. van Dijk, J.

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Learning on the move

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I cited Puro (2002) who declared: 'The mobile phone. Fortunati (2002) speaks of the alienation and isolation that sometimes comes from mobile phone use, and comments that some isolation can be self-imposed, particularly when 'defending the space within which one would like to isolate one's voice'. 2002) Finland: A Mobile Culture.

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Doing and knowing

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2002) Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching. Photo by Steve Wheeler Doing and knowing by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Skills and knowledge go hand in hand. References Brabazon, T. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

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