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Joan works and plays on the web and is happy to speak to groups or individuals about the web's communication possibilities
Category Archives: netgen
About Gaming – & Learning
If it’s this big … the education community should be taking notice! I confess I know almost nothing about gaming, but I suspect it will be (should be) deeply important to education. As a student, I used historical fiction to help me learn history, and it worked. The learning promise for gaming appears to be View Post
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Posted in ads, business, cartoon, communication, Downes, education, Internet_use, learning, learning 2.0, netgen, virtual
Tagged education, gaming, Jerome_Sudan
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From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able by Wesch
Michael Wesch is a pedagogical hero of mine. I’ve watched videos his classes made; I’ve watched a video of him explaining his teaching, and I asked a question on Twitter, and even though he doesn’t follow me, got an anwser from him within a few hours! He understands the impact of the new communication ecosphere View Post
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Posted in communication, Downes, learning, learning 2.0, Michael Wesch, netgen, Stephen Downes, technology, video, web2.0, webtools, wiki, Wikipedia
Tagged communication, education, learning, wikis, WorkLiteracy
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Understanding the Net Generation's Academic Interests
The new tools that attract students to blogs and social networking software—including the resources that make possible site design, intertextuality, the combination of video and audio elements with text, the ability to comment and respond—can be used for the age-old project of developing the thinking, reading, and writing skills of students. from MyLiteracies:Understanding the Net View Post
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