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What students need

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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). References Blatchford, P. et al (2002) Relationships between class size and teaching. Gardner, J. (Ed: Unported License.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

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Mobile and personal technologies that are connected to global networks have afforded us with the priceless ability to collaborate and cooperate in new and inventive ways (Rheingold, 2002), and allow us to rapidly self organise into new collective forces (Tapscott and Williams, 2008). Next time: Connected Minds References Godin, S.

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Digital tribes and the network nation

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Howard Rheingold (2002) applies this ‘theory of being’ to the use of short message service (SMS) texting by young people – who they send texts to, and receive them from, defines an element of their social identity, as constructed by themselves in relation to the others in their SMS circle of communication. Previous posts in this series 1.

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Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

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User generated content has also attracted criticism over issues of mediocrity, lack of accuracy and superficial scholarship (Brabazon, 2002; 2007). References Brabazon, T. 2002) Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching. University of South Wales, Australia. Brabazon, T. Unported License.

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Mobile gives the edge

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Howard Rheingold argued as early as 2002 that mobile phones harness the 'power of the many', which has manifested itself in recent years in social phenomena such as citizen journalism, flash mobs and crowd sourced funding projects to name just a few. References Agar, J. 2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Rheingold, H.

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Doing and knowing

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It takes only a few seconds to cross reference these facts with another website. References Brabazon, T. 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

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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I was certainly speaking for a time before the advent of what is now referred to as Web 2.0 van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. or the ‘social web’. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians.

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