Archive for January, 2009
Rate of Adoption Precludes "Natives?"
Jan 21st
A colleague is attending Educause Learning Initiative 2009 Annual Conference and is live blogging Michael Wesch’s keynote address. One of Wesch’s comments struck a nerve with a line of thought I’d heard recently elsewhere.
There are really no natives to the net. So many of the technologies are less than 4 years old. We are all in the same boat, faculty and students.
None of our current K-20 students have grown up with YouTube or Facebook or Twitter or iPods or RSS Aggregators or Virtual Environments etc. Many of the potentially, educationally disruptive technologies have surfaced with “Web 2.0″ in the last 3-5 years. More >
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Jan 6th
I’ll come back and post notes, hopefully. AJ Kelton, Montclair State University, hosts a weekly Second Life Education Roundtable (SLER) discussion; this week, he’s arranged an impressive panel discussion described below. More >
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