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Nigel Robertson

Twitter goes down and the world falls silent | Charles Arthur | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Good article exploring a fundamental difference between news in Twitter and (lack of) news in Facebook
Nigel Robertson

The real cost of free | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    Op-ed on why DRM and anti-piracy movements are doomed to fail and the invasion of privacy and reduction of human rights that legislation allows, and why people should accept that the times they have a changed ...
Stephen Harlow

Social media savvy: the universities and academics leading the way | Higher Education N... - 0 views

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    "...research is a social process, and that building a network of peers is nothing new, but significantly increased by the use of social media."
Stephen Harlow

PowerPoint: the kudzu of modern communication | Cory Franklin | Comment is free | guard... - 0 views

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    "Australian researchers have discovered information is best processed either orally or in writing, but not both ways simultaneously. Thus, PowerPoint presentations can backfire when what's on the screen is the same as what the speaker is saying, because audience attention is automatically divided."
Stephen Harlow

How can a university best use social media for internal communications? | Higher Educat... - 0 views

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    RT @kiwirip: (via Jacqui Kelly) How can a #university best use #socialmedia for internal #communications? http://gu.com/p/2pefk/tw #yam
Nigel Robertson

How to teach using mobile devices | Synechism - 0 views

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    Short Doug Belshaw post on using mobiles in class - and see Guardian Teacher Network linked from there.
Nigel Robertson

Teaching styles in HE: to inform or enlighten? | Higher Education Network | Guardian Pr... - 1 views

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    The move from a tutorial and learning system for the elite to the massification of lectures in the early 19th Century.
Stephen Harlow

Student as producer: reinventing higher education through undergraduate research | High... - 1 views

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    "...the two main activities in a lecturer's job, research and teaching, work against each other." So why not get the students doing research too?
Nigel Robertson

Weibo: The Chinese Twitter that dwarfs Twitter | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    Short description of Weibo with 140m users compared to Twitter's 56m. Weibo is used in a different way with many more retweets, less comment, and more advertising.
Nigel Robertson

Universities must rethink their approach to student digital literacy | Higher Education... - 2 views

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    Framing Digital Literacy as conversation. Not stunning but worth adding to the lists.
Nigel Robertson

Female academics: don't power dress, forget heels - and no flowing hair allowed | Highe... - 1 views

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    The hidden side of discrimination in HE.
Stephen Bright

Advent of Google means we must rethink our approach to education | Education | The Obse... - 0 views

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    Sugata Mitra (TED talks and hole-in-the-wall computer innovator) critiques traditonal 'pencil and paper' exams and learning and gives an alternative which is (I think) a problem-based learning approach which he calls SOLE (Self-organised learning environment). 
Nigel Robertson

Students ticked off by ban on watches in exams | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Watches being banned from exams!
Nigel Robertson

Forty-thousand years of Indigenous maths can get kids into numbers today | @IndigenousX... - 0 views

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    Interesting post after our discussion of the CEP and need to include different cultural perspectives on learning.
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