Howard Rheingold spoke today about the new critical literacy required by students because the function that in the past resided with people in authority (eg the librarian) has shifted to search engines…….but the results are not always accurate and the sources are not necessarily authorative.
A fear that critical literacy might incite radicalised students rather than students […]
I asked Mark Pesce, who hosted the afternoon sessions at both the Jimmy Wales and danah boyd seminar to reflect on the Jimmy Wales seminar. Mark’s insights into the challenges and opportunities can be summarised into three areas of consideration
Control vs Chaos (Didn’t Maxwell Smart have a take on this!!)
Although Wikipedia may seemingly have a […]
danah speaks of a concept of networked publics. Online spaces that communities gather to communicate and collaborate. These communities come together because they are passionate about their specific areas of interest. In these communities, the participants know the norms for behaviour.
In the early days, public spaces, such as moderated usenets and listserves, where you could […]
danah boyd spoke at the education.au seminar today about the rise of social networks. danah spoke of the profiles that students develop and make public on their myspace site. She says this is equivalent to your contact list on the phone, that we often don’t make public. Kids today do, and this is important to […]
Thanks to Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham who pointed me to this wonderful report, ‘Their Space’ by Hannah Green and Celia Hannon from DEMOS. It is a piece of research conducted over the last 9 months of 2006 in which children and parents of children were interviewed about their use of technology.
The research pointed to a number of […]
I am attending the annual Kaleidoscope review in Granada, Spain, as a reviewer.
This year there are some very interesting activities that have been reported. The Mobile Learning initiative took my attention because it asked the question, when we talk about mobile learning, what does ‘mobile’ refer to? The technology or the learner?? In the report […]
Well its been a long time between drinks!! But given that we have announced Jimmy Wales pending trip to Australia (‘Challenging how knowledge is created’ - seminar) I thought I’d take the opportunity to give you more information about the seminar.
The seminar is not really about Wikipedia but the enormous impact that something like wikipedia […]
In this day and age of read/write web, there are a number of new web 2.0 tools that have the potential to transform learning. The rate and pace of change raises some interesting questions about which ‘horse’ do you select and will they be around for a long time.
For a reason, I can’t mention in […]
Well, its almost Xmas and we are wrapping up for the holidays. On reflection, my greatest triumph this year is to get into blogging…well, starting to blog. I use an RSS reader to aggregate blogs. Its a fabulous way to link into the thinking of bloggers that provide me with key information, tips, pointers and all […]
We have been off the air for a few days. We apologise for any withdrawal symptoms, that you may have??
Found this entry in the Smartmobs blog this week. Smartmobs had pointed to the rrove blog. When does this hyperlinking become recursive?? Or do they call this viral marketing??
The blog entry is about community mapping software, […]
