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Change Our Traditional Approach to Education

Kapp Notes

And adding technology hardware is not enough, the next wave in engineering and technology education is to leverage the connectivity of the third millennials and their aptitude for creating content to share with others via web-based and mobile-based social networking tools.

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Zip it, Block it, Flag it

Learning with e's

80% of children in the UK have encountered unsuitable or harmful content on the Internet (Byron, 2009 - see report link below) and it has usually been down to parents to educate their children about keeping safe on the web - that is until now.

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CAC Conference: Student Presentations

Kapp Notes

Four student teams are presenting this semester and are focused on Web 2.0 This original concept gradually evolved into an idea for an online community based on Web 2.0 Communication between members of MyBestDay.net would include instant messaging and uploaded podcasts. His concept came from his memories of his best day.

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LMSs that kick ass: GeoLearning

Janet Clarey

A: Will Hipwell- GeoLearning’s GeoEngage module facilitates Communities of Practice (CoPs), enables social networking, and provides access to Web 2.0 technologies like Chat, instant messaging, email, file sharing and uploading, resource library, blogging, wikis, discussion groups and RSS feeds. Me: Thanks Super Will.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn. Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation. Brown, J.S.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

eFront

A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), It’s also the more feature complete one: it has text, images, videos, scoring, comments, pages, sharing, and a full web-based embedded app platform.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

eFront

A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), It’s also the more feature complete one: it has text, images, videos, scoring, comments, pages, sharing, and a full web-based embedded app platform.