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Identity play

Learning with 'e's

Although technology has moved on a pace - since the book was written we now have social media, mobile phones and touch screen tablet computers - many of Sherry Turkle''s ideas still resonate with personal meaning. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. In some ways, she suggests, identity play can be therapeutic. (p

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies.

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Six Powerful Motivations Driving Social Learning By Teens

MindShift

The tension between open, social learning and the formal, enclosed variety is becoming untenable. Today’s students often have more computing power in their pockets, on their mobile phones, than the PCs in the outdated computer lab–-but they are usually prevented from using it. It turns out there’s a scientific reason.

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Six Powerful Motivations Driving Social Learning By Teens

MindShift

The tension between open, social learning and the formal, enclosed variety is becoming untenable. Today’s students often have more computing power in their pockets, on their mobile phones, than the PCs in the outdated computer lab–-but they are usually prevented from using it. It turns out there’s a scientific reason.