The Innovative Educator
JUNE 10, 2013
The topic was: Learning in the 21st Century: Social Media in Education. During the hangout participants discussed how they are using social media in their education and how they think it can better be used in their learning experience. Also mentioned were Wikis and LinkedIn. Here are the topics that were discussed.
Bryan Alexander
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
Several years ago I launched a wiki for a desperate purpose. Consider this a case study in evolving social media. A wiki was the logical choice. And so it came to be , what is now the Restaurants in Airports Wiki. Over the years the wiki grew further. And yet the wiki continued to exist.
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Learning with 'e's
MARCH 1, 2016
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.
User Generated Education
JANUARY 22, 2023
As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning.
Learning with 'e's
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
We got talking about why I was in New Zealand, our academic work, and then I asked him what he'd studied during his PhD. He told me he studied chemistry education with an emphasis in learning technology. He had done work on the use of social media. He looked at me again, and said 'What did you say your name was?'
Learning with 'e's
JANUARY 16, 2016
A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. Wikis for example, can subvert traditional values such as personal ownership and intellectual property (Richardson, 2006) but community ownership of the content becomes an equalising factor.
Learning with 'e's
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
Increasingly, as we ask our learners to engage with social media as a part of their study, we are also asking them to leave a trace of themselves on the Web. Jenny talked not only of the benefits and potential of social media to enhance learning, but also gave a critical review of some of the issues and challenges.
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