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Social Media: The New Path of Economics and Marketing « Lorelle on WordPress - 0 views

  • Part of her work in developing educational standards for writing social media training materials, Liz explains that we are walking down a totally new path of economics and marketing which is returning to the “culture of a village” and changing the whole marketplace. You can watch from the outside or jump in - either way, you have to understand that this is the same as business techniques of the past while being totally different. In her words, “Can you spell paradox?”
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    I am getting more and more interested in how the web is changing how we connect and from social groups. There are powerful social currents forming under our feet and if educators don't get connected to these currents we will become just foam on the surface.
anonymous

Digital Citizenship Education - 0 views

  • Students interact with music, movies, software, and other digital content every day. Do they understand the rules that dictate the ethical use of these digital files, and do they understand why these issues are relevant? The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relevance of and a personal respect for creative rights and grow to become good digital citizens.
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    Students interact with music, movies, software, and other digital content every day. Do they understand the rules that dictate the ethical use of these digital files, and do they understand why these issues are relevant? The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relevance of and a personal respect for creative rights and grow to become good digital citizens.
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EDUCAUSE Quarterly | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

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    EDUCAUSE Quarterly is an online, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources-information, technology, and services-published quarterly by EDUCAUSE. Materials related to planning for, developing, managing, evaluating, and using information resources on college and university campuses are welcomed. Submissions are evaluated for suitability by the EQ Editor and EQ Editorial Committee.
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Open Source Software in Education (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

  • Academia has adopted open source software for some online learning initiatives because it addresses persistent technical challenges
anonymous

New Study Finds Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundation - 1 views

  • The study also finds that young people are learning basic social and technical skills through their use of digital media that they need to participate fully in contemporary society. The social worlds that youth are negotiating offer new dynamics, as online socializing is permanent and public, involves managing elaborate networks of friends and acquaintances, and is always on.
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      Where are young people learning how to properly use social digital tools?
  • According to researchers, young people are motivated to learn from their peers, as well as adults, online. The Internet provides new kinds of public spaces for youth to interact and receive feedback from one another. This may be different from how students are often asked to learn in schools.
  • In a cautionary note to parents, the study indicates that most youth are not taking full advantage of the learning opportunities of the Internet. While most youth use the Internet socially, they may overlook learning opportunities. Serious learning opportunities are abundant online in such subjects as astronomy, history, creative writing, and foreign languages. Youth can connect with people in different locations and of different ages who share their interests, making it possible follow pursuits that might not be popular or valued with their local peer groups.
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Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle -- the components of an online learning environment | FunnyMon... - 0 views

  • Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle all have a role to play in providing tools for learning communities. The example outlined in this post illustrates one way these three applications can work together in an academic setting. At the outset, however, it needs to be stressed that this is one solution chosen from among many. These three applications can be used by different institutions in different ways in response to specific institutional needs.
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    Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle all have a role to play in providing tools for learning communities. The example outlined in this post illustrates one way these three applications can work together in an academic setting. At the outset, however, it needs to be stressed that this is one solution chosen from among many. These three applications can be used by different institutions in different ways in response to specific institutional needs.
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Inviting Student Lives into the Classroom - by Linda Christensen | Youth Voices - 0 views

  • Inviting Student Lives into the Classroom - by Linda Christensen
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    An article from Rethinking School winter 1997/1998 "Inviting Student Lives intothe Classroom"
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eSN Special Report: Blended learning on the rise | Featured Special Reports | eSchoolNe... - 0 views

  • Students work online from home four days a week and come to school for the fifth.
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      Who provides hardware and Internet connections
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    Finding the best of physical and virtual schools
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Education Experiment Ends - 0 views

  • Content experts are a necessity, but there is no excuse to be media illiterate
  • What!? This is an ongoing debate that's been around for years. Even as content continues to be King, the question is, with content changing so rapidly and embedded in new media, aren't we as educators foolish to disregard media?
  • The connection between reading, writing, communication and new literacies is multi-modal, engaging everyone as learners as a result of its constant, transformative nature. Multiple modalities go beyond traditional ways of communicating—such as pen and paper, keyboard and mouse—to combine old literacies with new ones. This results in increased usability, increased experience that engages learners (Source). 
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      Which "best practices" spare the rod spoil the child?
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    Can teachers continue to be content experts without being technology literate?
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    See Mass New Literacies Institute at massnewliteracies2011.wikispaces.com
anonymous

Why We Learn More From Our Successes Than Our Failures - 0 views

  • Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail.
  • The study sheds light on the neural mechanisms linking environmental feedback to neural plasticity — the brain's ability to change in response to experience. It has implications for understanding how we learn, and understanding and treating learning disorders.
  • The neural activity following a correct answer and a reward helped the monkeys do better on the trial that popped up a few seconds later.
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      So a reward needs to very quickly follow a correct response.
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  • The prefrontal cortex orchestrates thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals while the basal ganglia are associated with motor control, cognition and emotions. This work shows that these two brain areas, long suspected to play key roles in learning and memory, have full information available to them to do all the neural computations necessary for learning.
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      What if the connections are not working well?
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    An article about how we learn more from success than failure. More info about neuro-science and learning
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