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Ed Webb

Please Sir, how do you re-tweet? - Twitter to be taught in UK primary schools - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK’s education system. And that’s not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
  • Traditional education in areas like phonics, the chronology of history and mental arithmetic remain but modern media and web-based skills and environmental education now feature.
  • The skills that let kids use Internet technologies effectively also work in the real world: being able to evaluate resources critically, communicating well, being careful with strangers and your personal information, conducting yourself in a manner appropriate to your environment. Those things are, and should be, taught in schools. It’s also a good idea to teach kids how to use computers, including web browsers etc, and how those real-world skills translate online.
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  • I think teaching kids HOW TO use Wikipedia is a step forward from ordering them NOT TO use it, as they presently do in many North American classrooms.
  • Open Source software is the future and therefore we need to concentrate on the wheels and not the vehicle!
  • Core skills is very important. Anyone and everyone can learn Photoshop & Word Processing at any stage of their life, but if core skills are missed from an early age, then evidence has shown that there has always been less chance that the missing knowledge could be learnt at a later stage in life.
  • Schools shouldn’t be about teaching content, but about learning to learn, getting the kind of critical skills that can be used in all kinds of contexts, and generating motivation for lifelong learning. Finnish schools are rated the best in the world according to the OECD/PISA ratings, and they have totally de-emphasised the role of content in the curriculum. Twitter could indeed help in the process as it helps children to learn to write in a precise, concise style - absolutely nothing wrong with that from a pedagogical point of view. Encouraging children to write is never a bad thing, no matter what the platform.
  • Front end stuff shouldn’t be taught. If anything it should be the back end gubbins that should be taught, databases and coding.
  • So what’s more important, to me at least, is not to know all kinds of useless facts, but to know the general info and to know how to think and how to search for information. In other words, I think children should get lessons in thinking and in information retrieval. Yes, they should still be taught about history, etc. Yes, it’s important they learn stuff that they could need ‘on the spot’ - like calculating skills. However, we can go a little bit easier on drilling the information in - by the time they’re 25, augmented reality will be a fact and not even a luxury.
  • Schools should focus more on teaching kids on how to think creatively so they can create innovative products like twitter rather then teaching on how to use it….
  • Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09
     
    The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK's education system. And that's not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
Ed Webb

It's Time To Hide The Noise - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • the noise is worse than ever. Indeed, it is being magnified every day as more people pile onto Twitter and Facebook and new apps yet to crest like Google Wave. The data stream is growing stronger, but so too is the danger of drowning in all that information.
  • the fact that Seesmic or TweetDeck or any of these apps can display 1,200 Tweets at once is not a feature, it’s a bug
  • if you think Twitter is noisy, wait until you see Google Wave, which doesn’t hide anything at all.  Imagine that Twhirl image below with a million dialog boxes on your screen, except you see as other people type in their messages and add new files and images to the conversation, all at once as it is happening.  It’s enough to make your brain explode.
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  • all I need is two columns: the most recent Tweets from everyone I follow (the standard) and the the most interesting tweets I need to pay attention to.  Recent and Interesting.  This second column is the tricky one.  It needs to be automatically generated and personalized to my interests at that moment.
  • search is broken on Twitter.  Unless you know the exact word you are looking for, Tweets with related terms won’t show up.  And there is no way to sort searches by relevance, it is just sorted by chronology.
Claude Almansi

Accessible Twitter by Nick DeNardis .eduGuru Feb 18 09 - 0 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    Using purely the public twitter API Dennis has created an accessible version of Twitter. The site http://accessibletwitter.com/ aims to fix all of the issues above and continue to support and advocate for twitter to be accessible to all. Below is the current progress of the project.
Ed Webb

Paul Carr challenges Evening Standard film critic to try Twitter for a week | Technolog... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • We can all agree that, whenever an Evening Standard or Daily Mail headline asks a rhetorical question, there's usually only one correct response: take the paper, tear it into thin strips, crumple those strips into a tight ball and set fire to the ball, before hurling it into the sea, screaming "shut up, shut up" over and over at the top of your lungs.
  • I had to spend twenty hours a day for two long weeks in Second Life before I was able to say with certainty that all of its users can bite me.
  • until eight months ago, I felt exactly the same way. And then I got hooked.
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  • Eight months and 2537 updates later, I honestly have no idea how I lived without Twitter. I've lost count of the number of adventures I've had because of it, or how many spontaneous lunches, or parties or – let's not be coy here – hook-ups have resulted from a simple 140-character message (that's 140 characters not 160, Nick). I know friends who have been offered jobs through Twitter, I've flown to other continents to attend events purely on the strength of Twitter chatter surrounding them, and I can't remember the last time I Twittered a difficult question that wasn't answered in minutes, often by someone half a world away.
  • Suddenly these were not just nameless faces on the news, but people who hours earlier had been Twittering about their pets or how they were eating a sandwich, but who now feared for their lives. You can't read that stuff and not realise that, as humans, we're all in this together. And that's where Twitter, unlike Facebook, has the potential to change the world. You don't have to be my 'friend' or my 'contact'. If you're on Twitter, we're connected. You can follow my updates, and I can follow yours. If you want to say something to me personally, just begin your update with @paulcarr and I'll hear you. On Twitter, everyone is equal.
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOG USING GR8 WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND APPS IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION by Lucian http://xeeme.c... - 0 views

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shared by LUCIAN DUMA on 20 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • LUCIAN DUMA on 20 Jan 12
     
    #curation is #socialmedia king . Top 10 #edtech20 tools who will change research in #education20 this year . I invite you to subscribe free to our monthly newstelller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller . This post was made after 1 year research in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project . If you are agree that #curation is #socialmedia king leave a comment and share with #PLN . Also I invite to read every week on this blog about  gr8 tools . Also all my blog post are now on scoopit http://bitly.com/edtech20projectresearch
Maggie Verster

A list of K12 teachers who actively uses twitter in the classroom - 7 views

tweepml.org/Classtwits

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shared by Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10
     
    The spreadsheet with explations of how the teacherws uses twitter in the classroom can be found here: http://ow.ly/20TYo This list makes it easy to follow all the teahcers at once or to tiick who you want to follow.
anonymous

British universities need urgent reform - 1 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...sities-need-urgent-reform.html

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shared by anonymous on 27 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • British universities are undergoing an identity crisis
  • They no longer relate comfortably to schools, parents, students, would-be students, the examination system, the education marketplace, the British government – or each other.
  • As we report today, as many as one in five universities is staging its own entrance exam because it no longer trusts the state's A-levels to distinguish between averagely bright and very bright pupils: teenagers from both these groups routinely arrive on their doorsteps with grades worthy of a Nobel prize winner.
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  • Clearly, they are here to stay – unless the Government summons up the nerve to reform education far more radically than it is already doing.
  • Tuition fees reflect fast-changing circumstances that will force good universities to raise the academic as well as the financial bar in order to compete internationally. As they do so, they will increasingly question the arguments for remaining shackled to a British state that not only genuflects in front of the altar of egalitarianism (albeit a bit less piously than before) but also, as we are reminded again today, cannot even devise a proper set of exams for sixth-formers.
  • anonymous on 27 Dec 10
     
    Telegraph View: British universities no longer know exactly what they are and what they are for. - British universities are undergoing an identity crisis. They no longer know exactly what they are and what they are for, now that social engineering has stretched the definition of "university" to breaking point. They no longer relate comfortably to schools, parents, students, would-be students, the examination system, the education marketplace, the British government - or each other. Every week brings fresh evidence of the weakening of these bonds, even in the middle of the Christmas holidays. - As we report today, as many as one in five universities is staging its own entrance exam because it no longer trusts the state's A-levels to distinguish between averagely bright and very bright pupils: teenagers from both these groups routinely arrive on their doorsteps with grades worthy of a Nobel prize winner...
  • tree saro on 01 Jan 11
     
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Ed Webb

Is the internet making teens nicer? - Yahoo! News - 2 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 18 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • We typically assume that the internet is turning kids into narcissistic, vicious cyber-bullies, but a growing body of research indicates that the opposite is true. New research suggests that spending time emailing, texting, and Facebook-ing might actually help both adults and kids become better friends and people
  • the more time college students spent on the internet, the more empathetic they were both online and off
  • Forty-five percent of 3,777 teens surveyed reported being bullied, but fewer than 20 percent of those said it had occurred online or via text messaging or phone. Almost 40 percent said it had happened in person. And two-thirds of those bullied online said they didn't even find the abuse upsetting.
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  • "Have our brains become so desensitized by a 24/7, all-you-can-eat diet of lurid flickering images that we've lost all perspective on appropriateness and compassion?" they asked. A 2007 study of 18 to 23-year-olds found they were less able to identify expressions of emotion after playing violent video games. And, while Dr. Rosen's study found that can help people relate better, it also found that excessive social networking makes some teens more prone to aggression, mania, anxiety, and depression.
Maggie Verster

Response to a Criticism about Using Twitter in the Classroom - 2 views

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twitter classroom teaching school2.0

shared by Maggie Verster on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • After all, kids can write all kinds of nonsense on a sheet of paper and spread it around school, as well; they've been doing that for generations. Yet, I don't see too many teachers wondering whether we should allow them to write.
Claude Almansi

OneWEB.tv » Five Questions With Dennis Lembrée - Creator of Accessible Twitter - 0 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    Twitter has changed from being a tool most people thought is simply yet another way for people on the Internet to waste time to a platform for social change, social networking and dare I say it even business. One of the aspects that Twitter has been lacking is an accessible interface to the service. Thankfully Dennis Lembrée is changing all this. Schalk Neethling sat down with Dennis to learn more about Accessible Twitter, the problems he faces in creating it and what the future will hold.
Claude Almansi

Accessible Twitter - 0 views

www.accessibletwitter.com/about.php

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shared by Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    Items Implemented\n * All links are keyboard accessible.\n * Simple, consistent layout and navigation.\n * Works with or without JavaScript.\n * Large default text size and high color contrast.\n * Looks great in high or low resolution.\n * Forms are marked up for optimal accessibility.\n * Code is semantic, light, and adheres to best practices in Web Standards.
Claude Almansi

Twitter / eurosubtitling - 0 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    # Name valentine de luca # Bio all things captioning, subtltling, dubbing, and language in movies!
Maggie Verster

Tweetake: Backup your twitter - 0 views

tweetake.com

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shared by Maggie Verster on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 20 May 09
     
    A tool for backing up all your twitter info, friends etc
Claude Almansi

| Our Mission | DigiActive.org - 1 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    DigiActive is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to helping grassroots activists around the world use the Internet and mobile phones to increase their impact. Our goal is a world of activists made more powerful and more effective through the use of d
Gabriela Grosseck

How to verify a tweet | Twitter Journalism - 0 views

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shared by Gabriela Grosseck on 25 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Gabriela Grosseck on 25 Jun 09
     
    Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the right keyword(s), they can find your tweet. Breaking Tweets prides itself on giving many different types of Twitterers credit for breaking news, whether it be someone in Honduras with a dozen followers recording the first "earthquake" tweet or a news organization providing the first details of a major story. But how do you know a tweet's legitimate?
Maggie Verster

The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 18 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 18 May 09
     
    A great resource book with good ideas and how to's: What is Twitter? Why is it so popular? And how can its 140-character messages be a serious-and effective-way to boost your business? This book answers all of those questions and many more. A friendly, full-color guide, The Twitter Book is packed with helpful examples, solid advice, and clear explanations guaranteed to turn you into a Twitter power user. Co-written by two widely recognized Twitter experts, this book will help you: * Connect with colleagues, customers, family, and friends * Stand out on Twitter, whether you're new to the service or already have experience * Avoid common Twitter gaffes and pitfalls * Use Twitter-and the best third-party tools that help you manage it-to build a critical professional communications channel If you want to learn how to use Twitter like a pro, The Twitter Book will quickly get you up to speed.
Maggie Verster

Working the Social: Twitter and FriendFeed - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 22 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 22 Jun 09
     
    Information overload is so five years ago, but the problem it describes is all too real. Fortunately, there's hope yet for the savvy librarian: Twitter and FriendFeed turn information dissemination on its head, using friends and subscribers as a filter for the best, most credible, and most engaging information out there. As Clay Shirky said at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote in January, the problem isn't "information overload. It's filter failure."
Maggie Verster

FileSocial, tweet your files! - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 12 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 12 May 09
     
    All you have to do is enter your Twitter login and password, write some text, and attach the document you want to share. So easy! Automatically, your Twitter will display a "tweet" with your message and a link to the file. Try it now!
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