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Summary of a one day meeting examining the future of teaching and teachers in the light of technology change.

Not a day passes by without doing an online search. You may know of basic search operators like AND, OR, etc. but an increasing number of web applications support even more keywords that'll help you fine tune your search to the core. Here are some you may have never heard of.

"The days of jamming 500 students into lecture halls supervised by graduate students and charging them several hundred dollars per credit hour for the 'privilege' of learning in this fashion may be numbered."

"Universities are run for the benefit of the adult establishment, both politically and financially, not students."--hard-hitting analysis of the US College system by PIMCO hedge fund manager Bill Gross.

Guardian Article. "As the demise of the Sopa anti-piracy act showed, established arguments for protecting the rights of content creators are almost impossible to apply to a digital world"

September 17, 2012

SAMR is the wrong approach.

The solution to ICT literacy on Campus.

I knew one day all my game playing would come in handy

Clever strategy - especially if they push it on Facebook. Interesting that it only runs twice. How do we try it?

Google's opensource "CloudCourse allows anyone to create and track learning activities" hmm... oh and hootcourse looks pretty cool too! Creepy tree house anyone?

Links to all the recordings from RSCon3 2011

via Downes: Brian Lamb's presentation is smooth, polished and informed. Culture, he says, is something that historically we have participated in by creating and not merely consuming. And we are returning to those days, where we can create content for ourselves that we used to pay for and merely consume. Indeed, for any content company, placing a barrier - such as price - between the content and readers is a fatal mistake. Culture is something that is ours - it's not simply the creation of the best, it's an act that is a part of being there (like the million people who have photographed Barack Obama). And when each person records his or her own presence, we can create something larger than life, something real. Knowing that you are making a significant contribution to public discourse is motivation to create and contribute. There's this and a lot more in this presentation.