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Brendan Murphy

Content Strategy In The Age Of Semantic Search - Presentation Software that Inspires | ... - 0 views

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    What companies do to get a better idea ofwhat their consumers are thinking.
Brendan Murphy

Our privacy matters! | Youth, Identity and Online Sociability - 0 views

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    documentary on privacy as well as other rsources
Brendan Murphy

Easy ways to protect your online privacy and educate others | The Webmaker Blog - 0 views

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    Mozilla webmaker privacy. How to secure your firefox browser. Why it's important
Michael Walker

Curatr at the NHM: Learning Locker - 0 views

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    Learning Locker
Michael Walker

Gibbon Launches A Different Kind Of Education Startup, With User-Generated Learning Pla... - 0 views

  • On Gibbon, users sign up and then collect articles, links, videos or whatever else from the web, and then share those resources out. Some sample playlists available on the site right now (it’s been running for three months in private beta, so there’s a decent library already on day one of the public launch) include “Becoming a better photographer,” “Learning CSS3,” “On Typography,” and “3D Printing.”
Michael Walker

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihai... - 0 views

  • Critical media literacy, in this context is utilized to combat the hegemonic power structures in society by training students to become critical thinkers, thereby transferring power from the hands of the distributers to the hands of the receivers.
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      Might be the most importatn point in the entire paper
  • shifting the educational framework from read, write and react, to create, curate, and contemplate.
  • defining sources and credibility becomes an ongoing and nuanced conversation.
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  • Curating content shifts the learning from passive to active
  • participatory spaces enable-archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate
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  • core set of key skills
  • While traditional techniques remain relevant for students today, there is a need to explore pedagogical models that aim to empower critical thinking within the context of digital realities for youth today.
  • play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, and negotiation
  • Organization is no longer simply for daily routines, pastimes or hobbies, but also for news and current affairs.
  • curation as value-added.
  • When the lists are public, the user becomes a de facto expert in showing the value placed on certain sources, organizations, and individuals over others. This type of curation "allows the people formerly known as the audience to create value for one another every day" (Shirky 2010, 17).
  • Curation is an act of problem solving.
  • task of the curator is to organize the information into a story
Michael Walker

MOOCs as Neocolonialism: Who Controls Knowledge? - WorldWise - Blogs - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

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    This argues that MOOC content is mostly western in origin, and doesn't take into account other cultures or pedagogies.
anonymous

The Privilege of "Digital Literacy" - 2 views

  • “I’m wondering if the new digital divide…is not about access but about people who have the time, energy, and skills to develop new media literacy and those who don’t.”
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    "the real divide in the future will not be between those who have access to the Internet and those that don't. Instead it will be those who know how to use that access well compared to those that don't. "
Rhonda Jessen

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    Infographic with concrete ways that teachers can use common media platforms to show, model and discuss digital citizenship. 
Michael Walker

Hey Educators, Shut Up About MOOCs Already! | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 1 views

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    Roz Husin shared this today.
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