Group items tagged ; - Digital Civilization

Successfully Launched My writer Career… Thanks John - 1 views

I want to express my gratitude to John who helped me become the writer I want to be. Before meeting him, I thought that I was born to be a novel writer and I almost believed it after receiving 400 ...

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Apply Teaching Jobs Abroad Online - 0 views

Thanks to Schools And Teachers, I was able to find a suitable teaching job abroad. The online job board offered me the opportunity to access various international teaching jobs and careers that are...

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The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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it’s impossible to overstate the importance of peer production to the modern digital world.
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What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age.
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Peer networks laid the foundation for the scientific revolution during the Enlightenment, via the formal and informal societies and coffeehouse gatherings where new research was shared. The digital revolution has made it clear that peer networks can work wonders in the modern age.
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We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will. But as a society we lack master narratives of creative collaboration.
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what the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate
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Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 0 views

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What is the role of a teacher?
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  And what is the role of education? Hard to know what the teacher should be doing if we can't answer that
  
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How can we achieve clear outcomes through distributed means? How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
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control is being replaced with influence.
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A curator is an expert learner.
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they don’t adhere to traditional in-class teacher-centric power structures. A curator balances the freedom of individual learners with the thoughtful interpretation of the subject being explored.
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The Marietta Daily Journal - Schools' love affair with technology is a reckless romance - 0 views

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The Presidential Campaigns Know What You're Reading Online - Politics - The Atlantic Wire - 0 views

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Harvard Student Tracks Mexican Drug Gangs Thru Google | Fox News Latino - 0 views

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Digital Media as a Civic Engagement Tool - For Educators - ITVS - 0 views

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Introducing students to digital citizenship and activism

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Civic Life Online | MIT Press - 1 views

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Understanding Digital Civics | DMLcentral - 0 views

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it would also be a mistake not to take seriously the role of new communications media in understanding civic life. In democratic states, citizens need information about what challenges a government faces and what it’s proposing to do about it to be effective citizens. And citizens need to be able to connect with one another to discuss, debate and propose solutions. What a communications medium makes possible has a shaping influence on civic life.
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