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Digital learning futures

Learning with 'e's

Digital Learning Futures View more presentations from Steve Wheeler As I write this blog post, the above slideshow has received almost 18,000 views in just 48 hours since it was posted up onto Slideshare. My audience has been extended beyond the walls of the event to a global classroom through the amazing power of social media.

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Unlocking the Gate to Better Learning

EdNews Daily

Fear of the lack of rigor is natural when the new learning modality in many pieces of courseware looks and acts like a game. But gamification does not mean the learning is less rigorous; it is just different. All new digital learning objects are expected to be validated the same way because of the past way of doing things.

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

Edsurge

They worry that the pedagogical benefits of having students participate in the open web and/or social media might be cancelled out by trolls, hate speech and other forms of online abuse. I was also surprised to see so little development in gaming and gamification within education this past year.

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