“I think the definition of writing is shifting,” Boardman said. “I don’t think writing happens with just words anymore.
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them to use video, music, recorded voices and whatever other media will best allow them to communicate effectively.
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More specifically, it’s believing that collaboration and increased socialization around activities like reading and writing is a good idea.
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, the writer is a synthesizer of the information and ideas
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Stephen Johnson argues that ideas get better the more they’re exposed to outside influences.
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“Not just when you’re looking at the book, but also when you’re talking to people about the book or when you’re Googling things that occur to you as you read the book.”
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The written word is coming to life by being a key part of multimedia," Boardman said. "When people can not only pick up something by the written word, but also listen to it, see it move across the screen or see someone's interpretation of that word through moving images, then I think it becomes much more alive.
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"The age of the know-it-all author who went into her room for three months and figured something out that no one figured out, and had a whole idea that was hers alone - it's over."
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What if someone listened to hundreds of podcasts, watched dozens of online lectures, explored countless online resources related to Introduction to Auditing, Astronomy 101, or Ancient Rome, and then discussed them with friends and family or reflected on many of them in an online forum or series of blog posts?
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The jury is still out on the need for a guide or facilitator in open education. As co-editor of a handbook of blended learning, I can say that I personally believe that blended is best. Recent research seems to suggest that this is true
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The potential seemed endless.
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learn the ropes” and become trusted members of the community through a process of legitimate peripheral participation.
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If access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life, then we need to address the problem of the growing global demand for education, as identified by Sir John Daniel.3
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Fortunately, various initiatives launched over the past few years have created a series of building blocks that could provide the means for transforming the ways in which we provide education and support learning. Much of this activity has been enabled and inspired by the growth and evolution of the Internet, which has created a global “platform” that has vastly expanded access to all sorts of resources, including formal and informal educational materials. The Internet has also fostered a new culture of sharing, one in which content is freely contributed and distributed with few restrictions or costs.
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Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
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As more of learning becomes Internet-based, a similar pattern seems to be occurring. Whereas traditional schools offer a finite number of courses of study, the “catalog” of subjects that can be learned online is almost unlimited. There are already several thousand sets of course materials and modules online, and more are being added regularly.
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There's a lot of information out there and we need to provide students with the critical thinking skills to successfully navigate between what is useful or true and that of utter rubbish. All the while encouraging them to expand their learning network, but not forgetting about the importance of face to face connections and hands on experiences.
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“Frankly, I don’t need to know or care that Billy broke up with Sally, and Ted has become friends with Steve.”
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When I spoke to him, Zuckerberg argued that News Feed is central to Facebook’s success. “Facebook has always tried to push the envelope,” he said.
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Users’ worries about their privacy seemed to vanish within days, boiled away by their excitement at being so much more connected to their friends
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In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why?
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“I really hate it when people clip their nails on the bus”
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The phenomenon is quite different from what we normally think of as blogging, because a blog post is usually a written piece, sometimes quite long: a statement of opinion, a story, an analysis.
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Haley discovered that he was beginning to sense the rhythms of his friends’ lives in a way he never had before.
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But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
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Ambient intimacy becomes a way to “feel less alone,” as more than one Facebook and Twitter user told me.
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“I have a rule,” she told me. “I either have to know who you are, or I have to know of you.”
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“Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle. I know more about more people than ever before.”
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What sort of relationships are these? What does it mean to have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook? What kind of friends are they, anyway?
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This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you’ll read them all, maybe you’ll skip so
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psychological studies have confirmed that human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the “Dunbar number,” as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
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This rapid growth of weak ties can be a very good thing. Sociologists have long found that “weak ties” greatly expand your ability to solve problems.
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Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
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the sheer ease of following her friends’ updates online has made her occasionally lazy about actually taking the time to visit them in person.
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a culture of people who know much more about themselves.
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Also maybe also a culture of narcissists. http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/aboutbook.html
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t’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site
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The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act.
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