Wcel_Team

"All students today are increasingly expected to develop technological fluency, digital citizenship, and other twenty-first century competencies despite wide variability in the quality of learning opportunities schools provide. Social network sites (SNSs) available via the internet may provide promising contexts for learning to supplement school-based experiences. This qualitative study examines how high school students from low-income families in the USA use the SNS, MySpace, for identity formation and informal learning. The analysis revealed that SNSs used outside of school allowed students to formulate and explore various dimensions of their identity and demonstrate twenty-first century skills; however, students did not perceive a connection between their online activities and learning in classrooms. We discuss how learning with such technologies might be incorporated into the students overall learning ecology to reduce educational inequities and how current institutionalized approaches might shift to accommodate such change."

'This Web page offers a variety of resources to help explain and evaluate the educational potential of tools designed for online collaborative work on documents. We focus, in particular, on college and university use of "Google Docs & Spreadsheets." '

Widget creator - free from Sun.

Proposal for transmitting data using tuples via Twitter and then exposing via other apps, widgets, etc. Interesting.

Some posts on using twiiter by phone and also FeedTwit

Another Michael Wesch presentation on youth culture and how changing media changes our engagement.

Long list of websites in a logo based graphic with links (some stronger than others!) to education

Rebuttal to Wesley Fry's TMI post

Short post on too much info. See also comments

'Full' text (google book) of research on setting up students as researchers to enable their learning.

1/2 article (rest behind registration) on students needing mobiles to access course content

Commercial student response system using students mobile devices, laptops etc.

Twitter bling

Very short survey on cloud computing in HE

Briefing on cloud computing in institutions

Resistance to technology

Blog post looking at the role of colour in learning spaces.

The Pulse smartpen records and links audio to what you write, so you never miss a word.

Collection of links to websites helpful for teachers. Includes video, twitter, blogging, etc plus sites for new teachers (latter may be US oriented)