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A digital taxonomy for Bloom

We are witnessing the emergence of something profound: Humans, historically divided by geography, culture and creed, are beginning to connect and collaborate on a scale never seen before. The driving force behind this creative wave are digital tools and networks that allow new forms of collaboration and knowledge creation.

Rob Torrens is using McGraw-Hill's Create service to customise his ENGG180 textbook.

Network learning, or personal knowledge management (PKM), is an individual, disciplined process by which we make sense of information, observations and ideas. In the past, self-directed learning may have involved keeping a journal, writing letters or having conversations. These are still valid, but with digital media we can add context by categorizing, commenting on, or even remixing information. 

"Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks)."

Exploration of narrative, openness, digital storytelling

Includes diagram showing role of digital technology on science.

Slightly old hat nowadays but handy take on natives over-hype.

While the examples used are from school level, the principles will be generally applicable in tertiary.

A gateway to open digital media.

Interesting first year project that develops multiple skills (teamwork, digital literacy, library search, empathy, etc) through geting students to create walking tours of campus for different audiences. Uses Google maps and social media.

Stephen Downes with a thoughtful and knowledgeable piece on the current and possible future states of learning in technology rich environments.

Fear and loathing - this time regarding students accessing the Internet at home on Chromebooks.

Attempt to solve the opposite problem - the anti-problem - to help you see how best to proceed with your real problem.

Very interesting article on the use of Twitter to organise in the classroom and the insights to power and hierarchy that this event reveal.

A list of high profile copyright cases pre-2004.