To celebrate the publication of our latest book Digital Literacies (with Gavin Dudeney and Mark Pegrum), my last blog post looked at the what and why
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I sift through reams of words and worlds of pedagogy. I blink through bytes of pedagogy and educational concerns. May 2013 and still the drums beat on about 21st Century Learning. May 2013, and one... Delete the scoop?
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Should social impact enterprises use the stories of their staff to drum up business?
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In the case of companies like these, where the core social benefit is the employment of people from diverse backgrounds, the questions they are asking themselves might be, “Is it a waste of a competitive advantage to overlook this marketing opportunity and in effect gain more support for the employees?” But perhaps more need to be asking, “Can marketing the social impact end up harming the people we are trying to help?” Delete the scoop?
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April Aasheim shares her top ten reasons why she wouldn't start her next novel without Scrivener. Delete the scoop?
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Aside from having a somewhat tidier desk, going paperless has been enormously beneficial. I can now access student information anywhere and at any time. Delete the scoop?
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Recently @indecisionpersonified asked me a question in the Thesis Whisperer feedback forum: "... I have just moved continents and been accepted into a PhD program and have six free months before I ...
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Ditch the A4 mentality – seriously. Look, I get that paper is a nice format to read. Portable and easy to mark up. I agree that there is nothing quite as satisfying as scribbling “WHAT??!!” and “WRONG!!” in the margins of a paper you dislike, but people – it’s time to face facts: A4 thinking’, as Chris Bigum puts it, will hold you back as a scholar. Reading electronically allows you to, as I put it earlier, “read like a mongrel”. Mongrel reading means scanning to ascertain if you need to bother reading more deeply. Delete the scoop?
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"Live to the HILT!"
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In Letter to My Daughter (public library), which also gave us her beautiful meditation on home and belonging, beloved author and reconstructionist Maya Angelou writes to the daughter she never had:
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In this post I examine and define instructional design, and share why it’s essential to the development of online courses. "Design brings forth what would not come naturally" Klaus Krippendorff De... Delete the scoop?
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This guide is organized into six sections:
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May 11, 12:46 PM
If we integrate technology effectively, the questions should be much clearer. We can have mindful practices Delete the scoop?
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A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content. Whether you like it or not, you've curated and will continue to do so as long as you're online.
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A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand. In other words, a curator is like that person at the beach with the metal detector, surfacing items and relics of perceived value. Only, a web curator shares those gems of content with their online audiences. And since people create 571 new websites every minute, tweet 175 million times per day and upload 48 hours of new video each minute, a curator's work is never done. Delete the scoop?
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Along with the news that GCU and the Scottish College Development Network are developing guidelines for the creation and use of open educational resources, another Scottish news item caught my attention this week. Delete the scoop?
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Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning, getting mentally fatigued, an
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At the totally wired, textbook-free New Tech Institute in Evansville, Indiana, high school students are online for all their assignments, working on Dell laptops in 90-minute subject blocks. Principal Michael Allen admits that keeping students simultaneously connected and focused for that length of time has been a big challenge. “It is very hard to manage teenagers with technology for 90 minutes of academic purpose,” he said. But Allen emphasizes that, when dealing with new and emerging technologies, there will undoubtedly be new and emerging behaviors that will need guidance — a responsibility he believes falls somewhat on schools. Much like Howard Rheingold’s call to name attention as a vital digital skill in his book NetSmart, Allen thinks it’s important not only to teach kids how to use technology, it’s important to show them how to be aware of what they’re doing while using it, too. Delete the scoop?
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"I’ve been blogging for a very, very long time now, and in doing so I have found incredible support online — found myself part of many intellectual, personal, and professional communities. But the “community” — that is, the commenters and my interactions with them — on my early personal blogs was quite different than what exists on most the technology blogs I’ve since worked and written for. More often, it’s not “community” at all. And as Hack Education has gained a larger readership, the commenters have become more like the latter (like tech sites) than the former. Yet, Hack Education remains my personal (albeit education-focused) blog. It’s just me here. No other staff. No “social media editor.” No “community manager.” That makes the comments — particularly the hostile ones — harder to deal with. It’s become increasingly clear to me that I am not building any sort of community through the comments on this site. If nothing else, I just don’t have the time (or the stomach) to moderate and respond. And moderation of comments is absolutely necessary. That’s not to say I don’t believe in engaging with my readers and my peers and my friends and my colleagues online. That’s not to say I don’t believe in engaging with my critics. That’s not to say I’m uninterested in hearing feedback (or copy-editing) on my stories. But blog comments just aren’t the place that this is happening." Delete the scoop?
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What does connected learning look like in action? It looks like Charles Raben, a 14-year-old aspiring photographer from a public school in New York City. Delete the scoop?
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What does it mean to be a networked teacher-learner hybrid?
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May 13, 6:27 PM
Actually, there is no evidence that suggests going on-line moves us away from institutional concepts. That is the critical theorists in me raising up. Delete the scoop?
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This week I'm posting a series of responses to the most common question I received: How can I coach a resistant teacher? Let's start with this: Some people are not coachable. Delete the scoop?
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How do you make sure that your eLearning courses look good? Ask yourself these six questions! 
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May 12, 8:22 PM
Does Your eLearning Course Look Good? Ask These 6 Questions | @scoopit via @juandoming http://sco.lt/... Delete the scoop?
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There has been a lot of talk about the use of social media tools in formal workplace learning; and I am regularly asked to review initiatives of this kind. In many instances, the use of social tool... Delete the scoop?
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Experts share rules of thumb from vocabulary and technology to handling difficult questions – and your own first-time nerves Delete the scoop?
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Editors’ note: The following is an adapted excerpt of InGenius (Harper One) by Tina Seelig.What happens when you cross a checkerboard with a midnight snack? Delete the scoop?
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