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sdclan | Uh oh, I'm a Technology Steward - Part 1: Four Technology Stewardship Design P... - 2 views

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technology digital literacy NancyWhite

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"Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs..."<--useful idea for digital literacy? Wider in scope than teaching/eLearning advocates. Hope to chat with Nancy in Hobart.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs..."<--useful idea for digital literacy? Wider in scope than teaching/eLearning advocates. Hope to chat with Nancy in Hobart.</div>

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The Get More Out of Google Infographic Summarizes Online Research Tricks for Students - 1 views

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google search tips infographic digital literacy

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Ti Point Tork » Blog Archive » Questioning University - 1 views

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highereducationfuture

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"So what do I tell my kids? Should I urge them to go to university? Should I tell them to jack it all in and run off and join a startup? This is what's occupying my mind now."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"So what do I tell my kids? Should I urge them to go to university? Should I tell them to jack it all in and run off and join a startup? This is what's occupying my mind now."</div>

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Some Thoughts on Teaching - 0 views

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education teaching philosophy

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"Real teaching is not about passing on the 'the material', as if knowledge were some sort of mass-produced commodity that ships from Amazon. Real teaching is about conveying a way of thinking. How can a teacher convey a way of thinking when he doesn't genuinely think that way?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Real teaching is not about passing on the 'the material', as if knowledge were some sort of mass-produced commodity that ships from Amazon. Real teaching is about conveying a way of thinking. How can a teacher convey a way of thinking when he doesn't genuinely think that way?"</div>

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Tiny Public Library in Kansas Uses Digital Projects to Stay Relevant - The Digital Shift - 0 views

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libraries future localism

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"We have to do more than check out books. One way a small local library can stay relevant is to become a repository of local information."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We have to do more than check out books. One way a small local library can stay relevant is to become a repository of local information."</div>

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Ti Point Tork » Blog Archive » Libraries: Where It All Went Wrong - 0 views

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libraries future

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"I personally believe that the greatest role you [libraries] play is around the documentary national identity. People come to you to find out about their ancestors, to find out what life was like, to critically evaluate and understand the past."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"I personally believe that the greatest role you [libraries] play is around the documentary national identity. People come to you to find out about their ancestors, to find out what life was like, to critically evaluate and understand the past."</div>

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Annotum - 1 views

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academic publishing wordpress blog theme editor workflow

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"...fantastic new tool to author and publish beautiful, peer-reviewed scholarly articles and journals."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"...fantastic new tool to author and publish beautiful, peer-reviewed scholarly articles and journals."</div>

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BBC News - Daniel Meadows on digital literacy - 1 views

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digital literacy digitalstorytelling

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"And yes, of course, there should be a digital storytelling App. But it won't be easy to design because the hardest thing for people to learn isn't technique, it is confidence."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"And yes, of course, there should be a digital storytelling App. But it won't be easy to design because the hardest thing for people to learn isn't technique, it is confidence."</div>

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Digital Badges May Highlight Job Seekers' Skills - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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education badges skills

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Stephen Harlow on 22 Nov 11

Badges for digital literacy? I can see this working well with lecturers ;-)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Badges for digital literacy? I can see this working well with lecturers ;-)</div>

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Alternative Ways to Earn Your Degree: Discussing OER University with Rory McGreal - 0 views

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OERu

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We don't need no educator: The role of the teacher in today's online education ~ Stephe... - 1 views

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elearning teacher role presentation stephendownes

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"How often do we read about the importance of teachers in education? It must be every day, it seems. We are told about 'strong empirical evidence that teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student achievement' again and again."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"How often do we read about the importance of teachers in education? It must be every day, it seems. We are told about 'strong empirical evidence that teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student achievement' again and again."</div>

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What Are People Doing Online? / Flowtown (@flowtown) - 2 views

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infographic internet

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Stephen Harlow on 18 Nov 11

What Are People Doing Online?

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Use Yammer In Your Training Programs | Yammer Blog - 0 views

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yammer training SoMe

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Stephen Harlow on 16 Nov 11

"With different features within Yammer you can add elements to your training programs to keep the learning going before and after the training event."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"With different features within Yammer you can add elements to your training programs to keep the learning going before and after the training event."</div>

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wikistream - 1 views

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wikipedia realtime visualization collaboration

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Stephen Harlow on 15 Nov 11

Very cool visualisation of realtime edits in wikipedia. Checkout http://inkdroid.org for more.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Very cool visualisation of realtime edits in wikipedia. Checkout <a href="http://inkdroid.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://inkdroid.org</a> for more.</div>

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Gimme Bar | Library - 1 views

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socialbookmarking

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"Yikes! No one you know is cool enough to be on Gimme Bar, yet. That makes you, stephenharlow, a trendsetter."<--follow me people ;-)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Yikes! No one you know is cool enough to be on Gimme Bar, yet. That makes you, stephenharlow, a trendsetter."<--follow me people ;-)</div>

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OERu Inaugural Meeting Day 1 highlights | TOUCANS Project Blog - 3 views

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OERu

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ClipsFromALT's Channel - YouTube - 0 views

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conference video alt-c 2011

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Keynote and invited speaker sessions from the 2011 ALT Conference, 6-8 September, 2011, Leeds.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Keynote and invited speaker sessions from the 2011 ALT Conference, 6-8 September, 2011, Leeds.</div>

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4. How to implement an e-learning plan - 2 views

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elearning strategic planning

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Digital literacy: Getting your workplace up to speed - 1 views

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digital literacy workplace

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Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 1 views

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infolit students library digital literacy

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Hypothesis: Students judge quality of information based on position in Google search results. Intervention: Switch the order. Result: Students "used the (falsely) top-ranked pages".

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hypothesis: Students judge quality of information based on position in Google search results. Intervention: Switch the order. Result: Students "used the (falsely) top-ranked pages".</div>

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