Pew Internet have launched their third Future of the Internet Survey. Unlike most Pew Reports, it’s open to anyone (who has computer access), rather than other Pew surveys which generally cover Americans (with phones). Some interesting scenarios, and what I like is that it’s possible to comment on all the answers that you give (allow…
The Education Guardian has an interview with Tara Brabazon. While I think that she has some good ideas, such as giving her first year students a list of 200 or so extracts of papers, to use as references for their essays (I do hope, however, that either they’re available online or in sufficient quantities that…
apophenia makes some interesting points re. the current Economist debate about SNSs in Education. She comments: SNSs do not make youth engage educationally; they allow educationally-motivated youth with a structure to engage educationally. and goes on to discuss youths that see each other regularly. I’d agree with her on that point, it’s very hard to…
UKOLN . This was held in November; there are several useful presentations; though, as always, the slides aren’t really a replacement for being there. There was a good range though, from using an institutional VLE, through to using much more informal methods of blogging. (I didn’t attend)…
Wayan Vota makes some comments on a Wall Street Journal article about the OLPC. He comments, as I’ve said before, that it’s not just the hardware. It’s the software that’s worth looking at (See Alexandre van de Sande’s post about the interface; a very clear explanation – emphasising the community aspects of learning) We aren’t…
Tom Hodgkinson gives a fairly scathing view of Facebook. While I can see where he’s coming from, and I agree, privacy policies are infrequently read; I’m sure that I’m not the only person who puts the minimum of information in & who doesn’t think that having 3 bazillion friends is necessary (though I’ve recently read…
Social Networking. Stephen Fry (or perhaps his agent) has been keeping a blog with all of his “Dork Talk” articles from the Guardian. This week, he was looking at social networking; he commented: MySpace is already as seriously uncool (and as hideously girlie, pink and spangly) as My Little Pony; Interestingly, at Poke 1.0, the…
Lucy Gray has posed this question in advance of a workshop she’s doing at MacWorld. The first caused me to stop and think and do a bit of research – just when did I write my first blog post? And why. (You’ll have to read the comments in her post if you want to know…
MIT Press Journals – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. I’ve just found these, thanks to a link from Mark Oelhert’s blog. This particular section is the John & Catherine MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. I’m not sure if they have other sections that…
Tony Hirst looks at some tools that allow integration between Facebook and courses. While he comments One thing we are wary of doing with the app is intruding on the student’s social space; so finding useful things for users to do in the app without making it seem like we are forcing VLE functionality into…