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• A quick glance at the OU Network on Facebook shows many students have created groups for courses they are studying. Many of these groups only have a handful of members - who were potentially friends anyway? Or they may have been established by people looking for friends on a course.

    

  What the formation of groups suggest to me is that some students want to create their own break out spaces where they can talk about a particular course outside of the university context (maybe because their VLE doesn't allow student created groups, maybe because they don't like the environment the institution offers, maybe because the setting is "too formal").

  • over de behoefte bij studenten om, buiten alles wat maar enigszins formeel lijkt, ruimte te hebben waarin het toch over schoolse dingen kan gaan
    
    
• What I guess I'm trying to say is that tools like Course Profiles are not intended to 'push learning', but they are intended to support social learning activity, through supporting the discovery of like-minded people and facilitating discussion with them. For a distance learning institution like the OU, this social support can play an important role in addition to the 'official' support offered by the institution.

• There are thorny issues here, but we want these companies to give up control of our information, and we don't want them to be overly scared of public opinion as they do it.  

  • Wat is de aard van de info die je in SNS stopt? Handelswaar, persoonlijk? Dit artikel legt het accent niet op welke informatie en wat er mee gebeurt maar op de controle over die info -- hoe makkelijk krijg je jouw persoonlijke info er weer uit.
• The leaders of Silicon Valley begrudgingly gave up their view of us as couch potatoes, now they think of us as generators of content they can put ads on (and pay us nothing).

• advertising is Google's bread and butter, advertising is to Google as operating systems are to Microsoft. They can't let somebody appear to be better than they are in advertising. Yet that's what Facebook is, better than Google in advertising

• There are three reasons why it makes sense to give away books online.
• The first is that publishing has always been in this kind of churn and flux—who gets published, how they get paid, what the economic structure is of the publishers, where the publishers are, all of that stuff has changed all of the time. And it’s just hubris that makes us think that this particular change—the computer change—is the one that’s going to
• the ethical reason is that the alternative is that we chide, criminalize, sue, damn our readers for doing what readers have always done, which is sharing books they love—only now they’re doing it electronically.

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• So what does writing literacy look like in the context of these Read/Write Web tools?
• a quick list of the different ways writing occurs for me today:
• When I get to the part about literacy in my presentations, I always ask how many of the teachers in the room are teaching their students to read and write in different modes, in hypertext, with art and photos, in audio and video, using all of them combined

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• is there any good reason to prevent people from playing with their culture — even if our culture is often generated by the corporate entertainment industry?

• Technical skills
• Digerati
• Multitasker

• Philosophical approach

   
   
  • Open: Needs sharing (for many reasons: principles, unselfish etichs, pretentious ego, self-esteem, selfish benefits…). Above all, awareness that what you give is what you get, that your wealth is — you are worth — what you contribute to your network.
   
  • Passion to learn: needs knowing. Learning is both a pleasure and a must. Keeps (or tries to keep) him/herself informed and up-to-date.
   
  • Led by the “procrastination principle“: “[to deal] with problems only as they arose—or [leave] them to [other] users to deal with”
• Psychologycal/Social aspects
• Networker
• Ubiquitous and always online
• Multidisciplinar:
• Autonomous:

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