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"Our children are surrounded by computers at school and at home. They run their social lives through mobile devices, immerse themselves in video games and get a top-up dose of ICT in the National Curriculum."

The Scottish e-Assessment Forum, which is organised and facilitated by the JISC RSC Scotland, launched on the 24th November 2011. The forum came about due to discussions I had with people from further and higher education institutions across Scotland, where it became clear that there was a need and desire for dedicated time to discuss e-Assessment and share practice.

"Your brain's important, but not all that important," said Dr. James Paul Gee, a professor at Arizona State University and a leading authority on literacy and the potential of educational games, during a talk at the Learning and Brain conference last week.

A briefing paper from the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), detailing the steps you need to take to license a piece of content using Creative Commons

"The 2011 ECAR National (USA) Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology gathered stratified data from "3,000 college students from 1,179 colleges and universities" via an opt-in invitation-only online questionnaire, in June 2011."

Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!

JISC E- Safety Resources

 A new wave of apps allow students to anonymously report bullying by submitting messages, photos or videos to school administrators in real time.

"Do we really need measures of online reputation? Can our worth be measured by the amount of Twitter followers we have or by how many +1s we receive on Google+?   Klout, Peerindex and other social reputation measuring sites are constantly bombarding web users with statistics about their 'true reach', 'amplification' and 'influence'. It all sounds very grand. And yet what is the actual value of these metrics? What does it mean that I currently have a Klout score of 60? This number is calculated among other things, on an analysis of my recent web activity on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ over the last 90 days."   Steve Wheeler

An updated and expanded version to reflect more clearly the range of different terminologies and concepts which we now understand as "Information Literacy". Online (rather than pdf) version with clickable links

An updated and expanded version to reflect more clearly the range of different terminologies and concepts which we now understand as "Information Literacy". Online (rather than pdf) version with clickable links

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