Horizon 5-year meta trends in emerging technologies for learning #shock09

Seven metatrends in emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations include: the evolving approaches to communication between humans and machines the collective sharing and generation of knowledge computing in three dimensions connecting people via the network; games as pedagogical platforms the shifting of content production … Continue reading Horizon 5-year meta trends in emerging technologies for learning #shock09

4 dimensions of digital literacy #shock09

I was discussing an unpublished draft of a working paper on digital literacy at Oxford Brookes. It struck me that a communication theory model might be useful when looking at the tools we might use. The four dimensions I recognised in the paper were: n-0: solitary reflection 1-n: broadcasting ones self: blogging, writing for publication … Continue reading 4 dimensions of digital literacy #shock09

tonight we suspended the Emerge Elgg service

After a long deliberation we decided that the Emerge Elgg site should not continue to operate in its current form. From midnight 31 March/1 April 2009 we discontinued log-in to the Emerge Elgg site and suspended all feeds into the site. I would like to thank all who have been instrumental in creating a vision … Continue reading tonight we suspended the Emerge Elgg service

Is there evidence of the use of Web2.0 to do deep learning?

It is sometimes asserted that while students are using web 2 tools extensively there is no evidence that they are using them to do deep learning. I believe this assertion should be questioned. There is some evidence to suggest that contemporary undergraduates in the normal age cohort (not mature learners) are not particularly critical or … Continue reading Is there evidence of the use of Web2.0 to do deep learning?

An Ada Lovelace legacy: women in (learning) techonolgy

There are many women in technology I admire. My field: learning technology is characterised, in part, by many female leaders. I think of Diana Laurillard, Grainne Conole (jfg them); colleagues: Rhona Sharpe, Patsy Clarke, Frances Deepwell, Judy Lyons in OCSLD; there's Helen Beetham, Helen Barrett, Rose Luckin, Diana Oblinger; Robin Mason, who defined a practice … Continue reading An Ada Lovelace legacy: women in (learning) techonolgy

passaggiato continuo: work life balance

I was talking with our Head of Elearning at Brookes about why I find Twitter a-good-thing. He worked for many years in Italy. I described Twitter as the passaggiato of the Internet. I have also heard it described as the virtual office corridor or the space around the water cooler. But, this led me to … Continue reading passaggiato continuo: work life balance

Macintosh OS X on a netbook for £400

[this is a reposting of a piece I wrote for Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing.] OK, I don't think you can call it a "Mac netbook" but this is how I got Mac OS X 10.5.6 to run on a Dell mini 9. It was easier than I thought. I wanted a small machine for email, … Continue reading Macintosh OS X on a netbook for £400

Digital natives? Analogue colonists

Graham Attwell makes an important point here, which resonates with work done on university students' use of the Internet for learning by colleagues at Brookes. The locus of work or study: the context in which the person engages in online activity is far more important than other more accidental attributes of the individual such as … Continue reading Digital natives? Analogue colonists

Why blog? Hello crowdsource, friends & lazy web: answers on a Tweet

I am writing a series of pages about blogging for http://brookesblogs.net. The audience is Teachers of undergraduates, Undergraduates at Oxford Brookes Other students and staff who might use the service, Other stakeholders and policy makers The first wave of university blogging services has long since flowed. The BBC covered it in 2005 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4194669.stm) The list … Continue reading Why blog? Hello crowdsource, friends & lazy web: answers on a Tweet