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7 Things You Should Know About Twitter | EDUCAUSE

Twitter is an online application that is part blog, part social networking site, and part cell phone/IM tool. It is designed to let users describe what they are doing or thinking at a given moment in 140 characters or less. As a tool for students and faculty to compare thoughts on a topic, Twitter could be used academically to foster interaction and support metacognition.

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Textbook or Facebook

First-year students are happy with the technology available at university, a new study shows. Ipsos-MORI followed a cohort of young people who took part in an online survey last year to tell us about their expectations of ICT at university. This year we returned to the cohort, to discover that half feel their experience of university life overall is just as good, or better, as they expected. Their expectations of the ICT used on courses, in their social life, and to support their university studies have largely been met.

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The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009 | EDUCAUSE

5 top challenges in teaching and learning with technology

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Diver

DIVER is a tool for authoring and sharing DIVES. A DIVE is an annotated perspective on any video record. Content can be captured by equipment ranging from basic consumer video cameras to specially built, high-resolution 360-degree panoramic cameras with a multi-microphone array.

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NCAT: Innovations in Online Learning

During the early 1990s, many of those interested in the impact of information technology liked to talk about "paradigm shifts." Despite its attainment of cliché status, the concept of a paradigm shift is a powerful one. Most who were once skeptical of the impact of the Internet on the ways we do business in all facets of society now recognize that our paradigms are, in fact, shifting.

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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

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Meeting the Top Challenges in Teaching and Learning with Technology (Notes from March 24th discussion session) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

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Papers in Current Issue

Greater clarity about the nature of critical thinking and how to support teachers in learning to implement it are needed if we are to respond to broader calls for critical thinking both as a central goal in science education and as a key aspect in the ecology of 21st Century e-learning environments. In this paper, I describe a professional development approach and a conceptual framework used to create critically thoughtful and media-rich science learning resources meant to serve these needs. The conceptual framework is a model of critical thinking developed by the Canadian Critical Thinking Consortium that involves embedding the teaching of five categories of intellectual tools into the teaching of curriculum content. The “tools for thought” include addressing the need for focused and relevant background knowledge, criteria for judgment, thinking concepts, thinking strategies and the development of habits of mind. The professional development approach engages practicing teachers through focused inquiry groups in collaboration with rich media technicians who help to develop the e-critical challenges (lessons). Aspects of this “comet approach” include a series of face-to-face sessions, gradual and planned introduction to use of laptop computers, inquiry oriented teacher-writing teams and expert mentorship for teacher–writers between face-to-face sessions. I explain the unique aspects of both the development process and the challenges in the context of a project involving twelve teachers in the creation of media-rich critical thinking lessons for a Grade 7 science course. Although project assessment data analysis is currently underway, I offer several initial conclusions in relation to the four goals of the project.

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In 2004, Microsoft undertook the task of exploring the future of work using scenario planning. In this article, the follow-up to “Scenario Planning and the Future of Education,” which appeared in Innovate’s June/July 2008 issue, Daniel W. Rasmus describes what education looks like in the four scenarios that emerged from this process. Rasmus suggests that educators and policy makers can use these scenarios and the accompanying narratives to consider how large and small choices work toward or against a particular future.

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Donald Clark Plan B

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Main Articles: 'New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies', Ariadne Issue 56

In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential im

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Technology Integration Matrix

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What was I letting myself in for? My Experience of Gestalt Psychotherapy

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The Internet: Research Tools

The Internet can be a researcher's dream come true. By browsing the Internet, much as you would browse the shelves of a library, you can access information on seemingly limitless topics. In addition, web-based catalogs are available in many libraries to assist researchers in locating printed books, journals, government documents, and other materials.

Possibly the biggest obstacle facing researchers on the Internet is how to effectively and efficiently access the vast amount of information available with the simple click of the mouse. With the Internet's potential as a research tool, teachers must instruct and guide their students on manageable strategies for sorting through the abundance of information. The search for reliable resources can be both overwhelming and frustrating if students are left on their own in their initial search. A few simple guidelines can make conducting research more manageable, reliable, and fun.

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Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On

In the summer of 1998, over two frantic weeks in July, I wrote an essay titled The Future of Online Learning. (Downes, 1998) At the time, I was working as a distance education and new media design specialist at Assiniboine Community College, and I wrote the essay to defend the work I was doing at the time. “We want a plan,” said my managers, and so I outlined the future as I thought it would – and should – unfold.

In the ten years that have followed, this vision of the future has proven to be remarkably robust. I have found, on rereading and reworking the essay, that though there may have been some movement in the margins, the overall thrust of the paper was essentially correct. This gives me confidence in my understanding of those forces and trends that are moving education today.

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AFT - Hot Topics - Technology in Higher Education

The AFT has long been engaged with issues related to technology and distance education in higher education, encouraging our locals to take an active role in shaping the way that educational technologies are implemented at their institutions. Our concern h

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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

The world has become increasingly “flat,” as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1

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Innovate: e-Learning and Action Research as Transformative Practice

Recent Internet developments and advances in networking have encouraged students' collaboration with other students and instructors, increased students' access to experts, and provided an array of learning resources. Despite the evident potentiality and d

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UK universities aim to spearhead online education – globally : JISC

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