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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Learners - Should we leave them to their own devices?

March 26, 2009 – 4:57 pm

Imagine if the Digital Education Revolution (DER) was not about schools providing the technology for the students but the government actually funded the students, through tax breaks and grants, the ability to purchase their own equipment. In many instances, this is already the case…and in some private schools actually encouraged. BTW, our current government is encouraging […]

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Grown Up Digital - Don Tapscott - CoSN Conference

March 12, 2009 – 3:47 am

Don Tapscott says that those people who are negative and critical about how this generation has been dumbed down by the internet is not true. See his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoqiRRMQ0fs
He says this generation are not only using the internet they are changing it. He described how his kids created an online community pre-release of his book […]

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“Everything bad is good for you” Steven Johnson, CoSN Conference

March 11, 2009 – 7:24 am

Steven spoke about the current pop culture and the complexity in which our kids have grown up. Three kinds of complexity are
1. Content : He looked at the game Civilisation where kids basically choose the history of civilisations by selecting characteristics from a Civics list. He looked on a cheat list and the questions involve […]

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