In 2001, I published "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants," a two-part article that explained these terms as a
way of understanding the deep differences between the young people of today and many of their elders
(Prensky 2001a, 2001b). Although many have found the terms useful, as we move further into the 21st
century when all will have grown up in the era of digital technology, the distinction between digital natives and
digital immigrants will become less relevant. Clearly, as we work to create and improve the future, we need to
imagine a new set of distinctions. I suggest we think in terms of digital wisdom.
Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.
Turn Moodle into an open educational resource publishing platform by opening and closing all or just parts of a course with the OpenShare block. In This
Turn Moodle into an open educational resource publishing platform by opening and closing all or just parts of a course with the OpenShare block. In This
tool to specifically assist teachers and academics to publish professional looking web pages according to the structure and form required for good teaching, and in such a way that this content could be integrated with existing LMS applications.
CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROM
The journal RNA Biology has decided to ask every author who submits an article to a newly created section of the journal about families of RNA molecules to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work. As Nature reports, this is the first time an
Last week I published a collection of over 50 excellent navigational menus for your design inspiration. Because I found more examples than I used in that post, and because others seemed to share my appreciation for menu design, I've decided to put togeth
Build and edit websites with ease. Create a fresh site with great design and publish it on any address in seconds. It's seamless, all in one and unprecedentedly easy to use. Oh, and it's free too.
Mendeley, a Web service that lets users organize and share research papers, recently announced that it has surpassed 100,000 users, and that its database now includes some 8 million works.
Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for people who create. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video. As of 5-1-08, they were in private, invitation only betas.