Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Nov 28 09
November 28th, 2009In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, brings to you a great set of news stories on emerging media, communication technologies and education-related trends and how these directly impact your daily lives.
Photo credit: Michael Brown
Inside this Media Literacy Digest:
- More Scientists Treat Experiments As a Team Sport - Wall Street Journal (motto: we have never met a URL we cannot complicate) looks at the trend for More Scientists Treat Experiments as a Team Sport.
- Video Recording: Learning 2020 - University of Oslo has posted a video recording of my talk last week on Directions in Education and Learning.
- New Tools For Personal Learning - If you would like to get up to speed fairly quickly with the state of Stephen Downes‘ thinking on education, technology, and learning, have a listen to his presentation on New Tools for Personal Learning - slides and audio are available.
- Grading 2.0: Evaluation In The Digital Age - HASTAC is running a series of forums related to education / media / society. A current topic - Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age - is being actively discussed.
- Connecting With Others… - During our LearnTrends conference last week, I experimented with the Cormier Live Slides method.
- Danah Boyd, Back Channel, Tocqueville - I have been reading a combination of Tocqueville and the Federalist papers over the last few weeks.In order for democracy to flourish, appropriate constraints are required. Danah Boyd shares her painful experience in using a back channel during a conference.
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