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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

It’s important to keep in mind that older students may have differing needs in comparison to the youngest students, where one hour of high-quality digital activities is always the limit. Use digital resources (like apps, texts, or social media groups) to keep parents informed about class activities and upcoming assignments.[5].

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

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. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 users moved from just accessing information and content to being able to directly interact with the content through commenting, remixing, and sharing it via social networks. Education 1.0 can be compared to Web 1.0 Keats and J. is similar to Web 1.0.

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