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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. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. 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.

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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

Students that take part in a global virtual team are more likely to develop their teamwork skills, reduce stereotyping and obtain better learning outcomes than their peers who don’t participate in a global project. Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks.

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Botanical metaphors and learning

Learning with 'e's

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau likened the outcome of education to the yielding of fruit, and to highlight the need for ''cultivation'' of knowledge. Students become the nodes of their own production, creating content and sharing it through social media tools, much the same way a gardener would cast seed on the ground.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians.

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What Research Says About Driving Growth for Writers With Practice, Feedback and Revision

Edsurge

When appropriate, students can learn to share their work through social media or sites like Youth Voices , extending their sense of audience, purpose, and genre that comes from a foundation of good writing instruction. Troy Hicks’ Twitter: @hickstro. Writable Twitter: @getwritable.

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Interview on Down the Hall Podcast

EdTechSandyK

I have networked on Twitter and on this blog with one of the podcast hosts, Dave Roy ( @UBCMET ), a Senior Program Assistant for EPLT, and it was Dave who asked me for an interview after hearing me in another recent podcast appearance. How important of a resource are various social media for doing this?

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Make like a tree - and learn

Learning with 'e's

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau likened the outcome of education to the yielding of fruit , and highlighted the need for cultivation of knowledge. Students become the nodes of their own production, creating content and sharing it through social media tools, much the same way a gardener would cast seed on the ground.

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