Education is sharing. Education is about being open.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlFree Technology for Teachers: Tools for Creating Strong Passwords - 0 views
Ira Socol on Universal Design for Learning | LearnCentral - 0 views
Red Tape - Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords - 0 views
YouTube - How to Choose Strong Passwords - 0 views
Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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The Internet now makes it possible for digital expressions of knowledge to have the same magical, nonrivalrous quality as knowledge itself.
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Information technology is sometimes turned against itself and is made to conceal, restrict, withhold, and delete. For example, a course management system like Blackboard theoretically has the potential to greatly improve educators' capacity to share. Instead, many CMSs take the approach of hiding educational materials behind passwords and regularly deleting all student-contributed course content at the end of the term. If Facebook worked like Blackboard, every fifteen weeks it would delete all your friends, delete all your photographs, and unsubscribe you from all your groups. The conceal-restrict-withhold-delete strategy is not a way to build a thriving community of learning.
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Lead article: How did a couple of veteran classroom teachers end up in a space like this? Extraordinary intersections between learning, social software and teaching. : The Knowledge Tree - 0 views
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With social networking and media-sharing practices rapidly assuming a central role in our professional and personal lives, teachers have a responsibility to bring these practices into the classroom.
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technology uber-fans gush over their embrace of every new gadget, technology and practice, affixing computer-driven activities onto factory-model teaching practices as shiny appendages, resulting in a ‘technology façade’
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This does not mean that traditional literacies of critical reading, thinking and communication must make way for emerging literacies of collaboration, online communication and multimedia navigation. It does mean that we have to transform our teaching to accommodate them all effectively.
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Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 0 views
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intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence
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While these early interactions are simplistic processes that by themselves aren't enough to drive meaningful change in teaching and learning, they are essential because they provide team members with low risk opportunities to interact with one another around the topics, materials and instructional practices that should form the foundation of classroom learning experiences.
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A tagging language is nothing more than a set of categories that all members of a group agree to use when bookmarking websites for shared projects.
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