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• Technology redefines talents

  Published: July 20, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Blc07, Collaborative Learning, Communication Tools, Socialisation, Blc07

  curricula, teaching and learning. And it is in some respects, but Dr Yong Zhao believes educators may only be a very little way along the change curve. We now see countries fighting new cold wars, not industrial ones with bomb threats and infamous red buttons, but cyber attacks where Russia tries to shut down Estonia, China tries to attack

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• Edinburgh Coffee Morning or TeachMeet?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:47 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Newcon, Scotlearnfest07, Coffee Break Spanish, Edinburgh Coffee Morning, Ewan Mcintosh, Centotre, Digitalagency, Edcoffmorn, Edinburgh, Scotlearnfest07, Social Media, Terinea

  the news about the Scottish Learning Festival and the way Learning and Teaching Scotland will be trying to cover the event and capture all the coverage from you guys on the web. Having just worked out, we think, how to get across an event with something like 160 talks, 6000 attendees, the exhibition, the social spaces, international lounges and

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• Edinburgh Coffee Morning or TeachMeet?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:33 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Newcon, Scotlearnfest07, Coffee Break Spanish, Edinburgh Coffee Morning, Ewan Mcintosh, Centotre, Digitalagency, Edcoffmorn, Edinburgh, Scotlearnfest07, Social Media, Terinea

  the news about the Scottish Learning Festival and the way Learning and Teaching Scotland will be trying to cover the event and capture all the coverage from you guys on the web. Having just worked out, we think, how to get across an event with something like 160 talks, 6000 attendees, the exhibition, the social spaces, international lounges and

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• Extreme Learning by any other name?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Extreme Learning, New Brunswick, Rich Tasks, Edubuzz, Elcouncil

  different angles for Extreme Learning?For me, there are two takeaways for Extreme Learning. The first, is that the design of the tasks is worked out quite heavily in advance. It is only a framework, which can be steered and manipulated by students, but it is a framework that 'covers' the essential skills we'd expect over a period of a couple of

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• Extreme Learning by any other name?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Leadership Management, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Extreme Learning, New Brunswick, Rich Tasks, Edubuzz, Elcouncil

  different angles for Extreme Learning?For me, there are two takeaways for Extreme Learning. The first, is that the design of the tasks is worked out quite heavily in advance. It is only a framework, which can be steered and manipulated by students, but it is a framework that 'covers' the essential skills we'd expect over a period of a couple of

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• Kevin Kelly@Pop!Tech: Where does collective intelligence begin?

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:39 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Wiki, Collective Intelligence, Kevin Kelly, Pop Tech, Poptech06, Poptech2006, Wikipedia, Wired

  Poptech 2006    Originally uploaded by poptech2006 Kevin Kelly gives some astounding insights on how the web resembles the human brain, in his Pop!Tech 2006 performance.The web is currently being clicked on 100 billion times per day, with over one trillion links. This is the same number as there are synapses in the human

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• Collaborative creatives and the future of education

  Published: August 30, 2007, 7:34 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Funding, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Andy Polaine, Creative Waves, The Lighthouse, Urban Learning Space, Australia, Cofa, Creativity, Education, Glasgow, Nsw, Omnium

  little cousin, Learning Logs, are currently mostly done on paper, if at all, are rarely read or shared by and with the teacher, almost never read by fellow students. Maybe an online alternative is the only feasible way of not only making learning logs more manageable, but also making them of more worth. Harnessing 'grazed'

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• Creative Collaboration

  Published: August 30, 2007, 6:03 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Creativity, Digital Image, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Etwinning, Andy Polaine, Creative Waves, The Lighthouse, Urban Learning Space, Australia, Cofa, Creativity, Education, Glasgow, Nsw, Omnium

  being seen within a collaborative context, says Andy Polaine at the Urban Learning Space Seminars in Glasgow. Andy Polaine's Omnium Research Group at the College of Fine Arts in New South Wales, Australia, is all about making more of this collaborative design happen in a better way, between professional designers and non-designers

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• The cult of the amateur and how internet changes our culture

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:12 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Digital Divide, Socialisation, Weblogs, Andrew Keen, Dave Weinberger, Mick Fealty, Slugger O Toole, You Yours, Bbc, Radio 4

  Last week I helped the You and Yours team at BBC Radio 4 with some background to the other side of Andrew Keen's take on the participative web. Mick Fealty will be reveling in giving the positive angle of how the web has empowered the citizen in a show live today at midday on whether internet is changing our culture (for the better? for the

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• Google Docs Presentations: It ain't Keynote...

  Published: September 18, 2007, 2:12 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Newcon, Productivity, Wiki, Collaboration, Googledocs, Powerpoint, Presentations

  yes, a new presentation. Collaborative presentation writing has been born. It's great if you like using Microsoft Office tools, since it resembles PowerPoint pretty well. It's also got the distinct advantage of being a presentation tool on which you can collaborate with many other people, simultaneously or asynchronously. From this

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• CSI:NY in Second Life - transmedia storytelling

  Published: October 25, 2007, 2:10 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Digital Video Animation, Gaming, Ltsfutures, Weblogs, Arg, Gaming, Henry Jenkins, Secondlife

  Cross-posted at Connected Live.Digital storytelling. Pah! I'm telling David Jakes and Wes Fryer, it's all old hat ;-) CBS last night kicked off their CSI:NY crime show (on Channel 5 in the UK) in Second Life. Second Lifers can solve the cliffhanger to the television series that would otherwise not be played out until a show in February. By

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• Are you building learning communities in Scotland?

  Published: November 7, 2007, 5:50 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning

  When I saw a new Curriculum for Excellence-related programme of support run by The Ideas Network, offering 1000 to schools who can create ways for experiences to be shared, I immediately thought of the work we've been doing in East Lothian over the past year, using social media as the bridge for sharing what teachers and learners do each day in

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• Students as customers? Depends on what a customer is today

  Published: November 17, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Curriculum, Leadership Amp Management

  curriculum, lesson plans and learning in their schools. But also, as Jenkins' definition of our teens' Participation Culture points out, our young 'customers', when in that role, have the option not only to participate in interest and learning groups, but to leave them when they stop being relevant or engaging. Are schools ready to see students

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• Education Unbound Unwound: Lessons for educational publishers in a social media world

  Published: November 29, 2007, 4:23 am

  Tags: Assessment, Collaborative Learning, Curriculum, Ltsfutures, Media Literacy, Podcasting, Socialisation, Weblogs, Education Unbound, Educational Publishing, Online Creative Communications, Books, Publishing, School, Textbooks

  them: change requires relearning, giving a damn enough to give a go with something that engages the students. Is lifelong learning just something to which we're going to pay lip service? Surely for publishers, to, there's more money to made in lifelong learning than from just thirteen year's worth of statutory learning. My final point:

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• Have your say: Web 2.0 Tools, technologies and costs

  Published: December 4, 2007, 9:11 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Onlineinformationconference07, Onlineinformation07, Onlineinformation2007

  in the workplace, in the learning space and in our private lives. What questions would you like to put to: Karen Blakeman, on understanding the principles and costs of Web 2.0andAndre Bonvanie, Owner of Newsgator Technologies who are behind many of the RSS tools you and I might be using, on RSS: The glue of RSS. Please leave your

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