Download guide - particularly useful section on activities, digital tools and case studies
"Thursday January 14th 2010\n\nLead article photo\n\nInformation rich ... multilingualism helps to build skills needed for the wired world"
"HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?"
The Edge Annual Question with reponses from key international thinkers
February/March 2009\n\nH. Sapiens: From Digital Immigrants and Digital natives to Digital Wisdom - Marc Prensky
Marc Prensky 2007
STRIDE Handbook 8: E-Learning – ed by Sanjaya Mishra, Indira Gandhi National Open University - 2009
"IATEFL Annual Conference Cardiff 2009
Learning Technologies Special Interest Group Pre-Conference Event, 31 March
DIGITAL GAMES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
A Report by Rodney Mantle"
"The End of the mLearning Revolution
Written by Chris Nash on Friday, 03 July 2009
Chris NashTeacher and learning consultant, Chris Nash, takes a long cold look at how the mLearning revolution failed to deliver on its promise of personalised anytime, anywhere learning."
"Foreign language learning in Second Life and the implications for resource provision in academic libraries - by Stefanie Hundsberger. "
Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
Researchers say the lure of these technologies, while it affects adults too, is particularly powerful for young people. The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.