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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
- Some in HE are starting to make this move away from an instructivist approach to one more aligned to social and situated learning. However, they tend to be the brave ones. - willstewart on 2008-12-02
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today’s digital environment is characterised by speed
and immediacy; the ability to access a vast amount of information at the click
of a mouse, coupled with multiple communication channels and social networks.
This seems contradictory to traditional notions of education; the need to reflect,
to build cumulatively on existing knowledge and develop individual understanding
over time. Just as there has been a backlash against ‘fast food’ with the ‘slow
food’ movement, some are arguing for the need to a return to ‘slow learning’
as a counter to the speed and immediacy that digital learning appears to offer. -
There is an inherent tension between the rhetoric of Web 2.0 and current educational
practices. - 8 more annotations...
Is the Web still the Web? |Fatal Exception | Neil McAllister | InfoWorld
For developers of RIAs (rich Internet applications), Adobe's announcement that Google and Yahoo will soon be able to index text within Flash movies should come as welcome news. Until now, Flash files have been black boxes; as binary files, search indexers
Effectiveness Of Traditional And Blended Learning Environments
To provide learners with the best experience, many educators are opting for a blended approach: a traditional classroom with face-to-face interaction supplemented by online resources. One University of Missouri researcher has found that while this approac
Online Universities Are Gaining Acceptance, Pollster Says - Chronicle.com
National surveys show that a majority of Americans think online universities offer a lower quality of education than do traditional institutions. But a prominent pollster, John Zogby, says in a book being released today that it won't be long before Americ
Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World
The creation of this book employed the very principals it espouses. It embodied a forming relationships model, and the sharing of ideas to produce new thinking model. A unique interactive, collaborative research model based on the formation of online rela
WHERE NEO-NOMADS' IDEAS PERCOLATE / New 'bedouins' transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office
A new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco. Roaming from cafe to cafe and borrowing a name from the nomadic Arabs who wandered freely in the desert, they've come
Innovate: Future Learning Landscapes: Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software
In both mainstream society and education, Web 2.0 has inspired intense and growing interest, particularly as wikis, weblogs (blogs), really simple syndication (RSS) feeds, social networking sites, tag-based folksonomies, and peer-to-peer media-sharing app
Why I Migrated Over to Twine (And Other Social Services Bit the Dust)
or the past few months I’ve been an active member of Twine.com; a beta semantic web app riddled with AI to help us organize, share and discover information. The beta is still under heavy construction, but at this point in time, I’ve migrated entirely
Chronicle Careers: 5/13/2008: The Future of Plagiarism
It is the year 2030. Zack, a professor of business, and Chelsea, a professor of psychology, are drinking coffee in the faculty lounge of a distinguished New England university. Zack: Jeez! Can you believe it? Three students in my electoral-marketing class
Dancing With Gorillas: The New Web Era - ReadWriteWeb
The new Web era is about the mainstream. This is when millions of small businesses and digital free agents make a good living by providing better products to a much more savvy market. This is the point in the Crossing the Chasm model when all the innovati
The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse - ReadWriteWeb
For 2007, our Best Web LittleCo was Twitter, the microblogging/status application that captured the collective attention of Silicon Valley at SXSW last winter and has been on a meteoric rise ever since. We picked Twitter because it "has captured the imagi
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
The Road to the Semantic Web - ReadWriteWeb
John Markoff's recent article in NY Times has generated an interesting discussion about Web 3.0 being the long-promised Semantic Web. For instance, a short post on Fred Wilson's blog had a lot of lengthy comments attempting to define Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and
Knowing Knowledge: Home
Knowledge is changing. It develops faster, it changes more quickly, and it is more central to organizational success than in any other time in history.
Our schools, universities, corporations, and non-profit organizations, need to adapt. We need to chang
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