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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible.

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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

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. Learning Environment.

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. Not wanting to bore you with too many details, I do want to share this little nostalgic journey with you… February 7, 2008 – What a way to turn the day around. An amazing educator in Colorado and prolific sharer of learning.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with 'e's

A Tale of Two Keynotes We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Wheeler, 2000a).

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Learning technology teacher development blog: Online Video: For Language Development

Nik Peachey

Learning technology teacher development blog. Tuesday, 16 December 2008. Online Video: For Language Development. There are now a number of online video sharing communities that are specifically designed to support the development of language and communication skills. Quick Shout Technology News. learning. (2).

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England.

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