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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
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When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
» One-To-One Laptop Initiative Frequently Asked Questions Shanghai American School Educational Programs Office
These are to:
• Improve student academic achievement through the use of technology
• Assure equity in access to digital resources
• Prepare students for their future
• Enhance teaching and transform the quality of teaching
Rose Review: Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum
Strengthening the teaching and learning of ICT to enable them to be independent and confident users of technology by the end of primary education.
It would be an Education Revolution if …
the successful learning and development of young people to at least year 12or equivalent is for almost all young Australians a prerequisite for a healthy,productive, rewarding and fulfilling life”
Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4 - Project overview
The purpose of this research was to help shape Becta’s own thinking and inform policymakers, schools and local authorities on the potential benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and how their use can be effectively and safely realised.
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The purpose of this research was to help shape Becta’s own thinking and inform policymakers, schools and local authorities on the potential benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and how their use can be effectively and safely realised.
Internet generation leave parents behind | Media | The Guardian
The report is based on an annual survey, now into its 15th year, of 1,800 children at 92 schools across the country. "This year has seen a major boost to the intensity and the independence with which children approach online activities," the report says.
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The report is based on an annual survey, now into its 15th year, of 1,800 children at 92 schools across the country. "This year has seen a major boost to the intensity and the independence with which children approach online activities," the report says.
The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital.
New Learning
Education in all its aspects is in a moment of change, or transition. The idea of ‘New Learning’ contrasts what education has been like in the past with the changes we are experiencing today, and an imaginative view of the possible features of learning environments in the near future. What will learning be like, and what will teachers’ jobs be like?
BBC NEWS | Health | Internet use 'good for the brain'
For middle-aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.
A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning.
Rethinking OBE in WA
Compulsory education in Western Australia (WA) has been experiencing systemic insecurity for over a decade. Since the introduction of Outcomes-Based Education[1] (OBE) circa 1990, the State has struggled to maintain traction.
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » iLeonardo - A Social Network for Research
iLeonardo as “a Social Utility for connecting to people and their collections of relevant information on the web.”
Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves | Video on TED.com
Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
NoodleTools : MLA / APA Bibliography Composer, Notecards, Free Research Tools
NoodleTools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process.
Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World
Digital information technologies are transforming the way we work, learn, and communicate. Within this digital revolution are new learning approaches that transform hierarchical, industrial-based models of teaching and learning.
An Invitation to Produce, Consume, Analyze: Social Media and Action Research
It seems the potential to organise, act, and solve problems has never been greater given new social media applications. And given the relative trajectory of social media adoption across the globe, things appear to be potentially getting brighter.
JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
In the context of the future of learning management systems, this paper examines the concept and perception of a learning environment from the classroom to the internet and their relationship to perceptions of teaching and learning.
Take a Chance . . . Let Them Dance: Validating Artistic Expression | Edutopia
We run our companies like this, by the way. We stigmatize mistakes. Now we're running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.
QUT | study says "Schools' Web 2.0 ban contributes to social exclusion"
Blocking students' use of Web 2.0 sites - blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and chat - at school could exclude them from valuable educational opportunities as well as heighten social exclusion, particularly in remote and Indigenous communities.
Google Pours Massive Investment into Renewable Energy Research
Google aims to find a way to significantly reduce the cost of renewable energy generation to bring it more on par with the cost of coal.
ACMA - Media Literacy - Concepts, Research and Regulatory Issues
Effective use of digital communications and media increasingly important for participation in Australian society, research finds
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- Media literacy, whether in traditional or convergent media contexts, is important for being engaged in society. Effective use of media and communications services is increasingly a prerequisite to broader citizen engagement including access to essential services.
- While the gap between ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ is narrowing in terms of access to information and communications technologies, there is evidence of a digital ‘use/literacy’ divide associated with socio-economic status, age, workforce participation and household type.
- The promotion of media literacy is an important prerequisite to effective regulatory intervention designed to protect consumers, particularly for online and mobile services.
Key findings from the research are that: - Media literacy, whether in traditional or convergent media contexts, is important for being engaged in society. Effective use of media and communications services is increasingly a prerequisite to broader citizen engagement including access to essential services.
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