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A Sideways Look at the Future of Higher Education

Edsurge

The Federal Communications Commission in 1975 established regulations limiting media cross-ownership. Then came the Internet, along with alternative news sources, social media, podcasts, blogs and the rest. Newspaper circulation dropped by nearly half between 2005 and 2018, from 53.3 million to 28.5 billion to $14.3

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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. 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. Unported License.

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Why Depression Strikes Today’s Teen Girls Especially Hard

MindShift

But a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests many more teenage girls in the U.S. And the numbers of teens affected took a particularly big jump after 2011, the scientists note, suggesting that the increasing dependence on social media by this age group may be exacerbating the problem.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

His work around the study of social and cognitive presence in distance learning contexts has been cited many times, and his research has led to a number of high profile keynote speech invitations around the globe. I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems.

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Why Even Young Students Benefit From Connecting Globally

MindShift

From practicing counting by fives or comparing similarities and differences via Skype, to writing for a worldwide audience, to making and sharing videos of social studies concepts on our blogs, we connect and invite the world to learn with us and to help us learn. The issue of online bullying is also gaining worldwide media attention.

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Doing Focused Work in Distracted Times: Cal Newport’s Deep Work

ProfHacker

He maintains the popular blog Study Hacks , and ohbytheway is also an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown. He maintains the popular blog Study Hacks , and ohbytheway is also an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. “Soon.”