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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

Milgram''s question was, how many someones are in the chain?'' (Watts, 2003, p38.) So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Social media can reduce the degrees of separation.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Debate focuses on whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. geotagging). and Purdon, M.

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The Serious & Historic Importance of Media Literacy | Downloadable Posters for Media Literacy Week

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Fred," his teacher asked while they were studying Huckleberry Finn , "what does it mean when Jim tells Huck that a storm is coming?" See [link] How many have died just in Iraq since the 2003 invasion (see [link] )? As a student of history, using the framework of power and control has served me well in studying the past.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I’ve spent my free time socializing with other educators and participating in Twitter chats and Facebook groups about teaching. I was a double major in college actually — early childhood education and art, with a minor in women’s studies — that all fits the trajectory of my journey, right?).

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How To Make A Civics Education Stick

MindShift

At one Florida middle school, students learned about laws by writing bills — and in 2003, one of those bills made it to the Florida legislature. When social studies teacher Todd Heuston stands in front of his students on the first day of class in Anchorage, Alaska, he knows some of them just aren’t interested.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

BIO : Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. And it is a rewarding journey, don’t feel burdened by it: compassion can be a lot of fun. Father Goose).Sea