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Revisiting Our Recent Wicked Past: Malcolm Brown, John Cleese, Creativity, #etmooc, and Light Bulbs

If we want to learn at a deeply significant and long-lasting level, we clearly need to keep re-walking familiar paths while remembering, each time we recreate those journeys, to look at them as if we’ve never seen them before this moment.…

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The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies

  • Digital literacies are developed progressively rather  than sequentially. 
  • Digital literacies are developed by tapping into your own interests.  
  • Internal motivation is the key to getting people to want to try to develop digital skills for themselves.
  • We live in a world where ideas spread very quickly and can be remixed. 
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Modern Learning,Today’s Students

Image from media.penlive.com

Modern Education is at the forefront of a lot of discussion’s as backed up by Will Richardson’s webcast for #etmooc.

He posted a board for collaboration where participants shared ideas on traditional versus modern education. Today we are a tech driven society.…

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The Boil, Lansing

Lansing is the capital of the state of Michigan, it is a pun ok?

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/ten-years-later-why-open-educational-resources-have-not-noticeably-affected-higher-education-and-why-we-should-ca

So lets play a game

Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT’s Open Courseware initiative.

A dramatic appearance, what like a cape twirl?…

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Reflections on “MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch” [Glader]

MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch  – from edudemic.com by Paul Glader

Excerpt:

WA – What do you think of this trend in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs? Where is it going?

JW – Tom Friedman talked about it a few weeks ago (in the New York Times).

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Old School to Bold School

Great comment by Peggy George

Great comment by Peggy George

I couldn’t agree more with Peggy George’s comment shared during Will Richardson’s #etmooc session The Challenges and Opportunities of Modern Learning, which was presented as part of Topic 3: Digital Litearcy (Information, Memes & Attention).…

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The Infographic Resume

So today I was reading the #ETMOOC Assignment 3, defining digital literacy, and stumbled upon Visualize.me. Thank you Doug Belhsaw, for providing a link on your site. Visualize.me creates an Infographic resume based upon your Linked.in profile. Now i think this may be the coolest thing I have seen all week, it would have been all … Continue reading

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digital literacy – jump in! I had an epiphany this week about…

digital literacy – jump in!

I had an epiphany this week about how we often deal with digital literacy/fluency in education. Too often as educators, we approach teaching related to technology and computers similar to how I see foreign language being taught to my son.…

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs