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Il est indéniable que les apports du web 2.0 dans l'apprentissage ne se limitent pas à un simple aspect disciplinaire mais touchent des compétences relatives à l'éducation aux médias telles que l'identité numérique, le travail collaboratif, la déontologie du web, etc. Les enseignants mettent en place des activités supportées par les outils du web social et sont appelés à évaluer les productions des étudiants. Ils sont alors confrontés à une nouvelle donne car les processus par lesquels on arrive à la production, à savoir la recherche d'information, la communication, le mode de travail individuel, collectif ou collaboratif, l'impact de l'effort individuel dans la dynamique de groupe sont autant d'éléments de compétence et de maîtrise que les étudiants doivent acquérir.

The first users in the early days of the Internet were professors and academics who shared their research and resources with unprecedented ease and speed. But nowadays, there is a dearth of lovingly crafted tools made for those who first popularized the Internet.

Scholrly aims to give its users, from the garage inventor to the tenured professor, a single stop for finding research connections and insights faster than ever before."

Train up your Google-Fu with these 20 tricks that will focus your searches with laser precision. If you can't find something on the web using these ninja skills, it probably doesn't exist.

« Les relations publiques au cœur des médias sociaux» L'Observatoire des médias sociaux en relations publiques (l'OMSRP) de l'Université Laval à Québec organise la première édition d'un Webinar international en direct sur le Web posant un regard sur les médias sociaux à des fins de relations publiques (RP). Cet événement francophone dont l'Université Laval est l'hôte officiel, s'adresse aux professeurs-chercheurs et aux praticiens œuvrant dans le secteur des communications professionnelles au sein des médias sociaux.

En effet, un essai a été mené dans quatorze établissements scolaires de niveau "gymnasium" danois en 2011, soit dans 10% des établissements de ce niveau qui correspond au lycée français et au secondaire québécois. Cette expérience consistait à permettre l'utilisation d'internet pendant les examens écrits finaux menant à l'obtention du diplôme de fin d'études. Parmi les matières pour lesquelles on autorisa l'utilisation de l'Internet : sociologie, danois, mathématiques, administration et économie. Le test semble avoir été concluant puisqu'en février 2012, le ministère de l'enfance et de l'éducation a annoncé son intention d'ouvrir cette possibilité (article en danois), celle de pouvoir utiliser l'accès à Internet lors d'examens finaux, à d'autres matières dont l'anglais. Il est permis aux élèves d'utiliser internet pour chercher de l'information et se faire une opinion sur une question. La communication avec d'autres personnes demeure toutefois interdite - impossible donc de se tourner vers un parent ou un camarade pour obtenir une réponse ou une suggestion pour trouver une réponse.

Technology and the many advances it creates are here to stay. As a teacher you will not be able to get away from teaching with and about technology. In addition, your students need you to do this because they will not be able to avoid the many technological advances surrounding them. The use of new kinds of technology will improve your teaching methods. It will serve to simplify the lesson planning process because you will have access to many new resources. Below are five ways you can include technological advances in your classroom:

Get an under the hood look at the next frontier in Search, from the team at Google behind the technology. The Knowledge Graph is a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they're connected to one another. With this technology, Google can get you the best possible answers and help jump start your discovery.

A store of information dubbed the "Knowledge Graph" now adds useful context and detail to the list of links that Google serves up. Searching for certain people, places, or things produces a box of facts alongside the regular results. The Knowledge Graph is already starting to appear in a few other Google products, and could be used to add intelligence to all of the company's software. "Search was mostly based on matching words and phrases, and not what they actually mean," says Shashidar Thakur, the tech lead for the Knowledge Graph in Google's search team. Thakur says the project was invented to change that. The Knowledge Graph can be thought of as a vast database that allows Google's software to connect facts on people, places, and things to one another. Google got the Knowledge Graph project started when it bought a startup called Metaweb in 2010; at that time, the resource contained only 12 million entries. Today it has more than 500 million entries, with more than 3.5 billion links between them.

usband-wife team Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband evaluate today's level of access to medical information online. "While previous technologies have been fully under doctors' control, the Internet is equally in the hands of patients," they write. "Such access is redefining the roles of physician and patient." When it comes to patients researching health advice on the web, Hartzband and Groopman have been exposed to consequences both positive and negative. They applaud that physicians, like patients, can now access the wealth of medical information on the Internet. "Journal articles can be obtained within seconds, and experts' evidence-based analyses are readily available…" they write. "Primary care physicians now have easy access to many guidelines whose reach was previously limited to specialists."