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Blogs & Wikis Best Practices CAIS, MAY 2008

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Blogs & Wikis

Best PracticesCAIS, MAY 2008

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Worldwide ambitions for education

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Writing

Paper

Indexes, paragraphs

Printing

Photos, sound, film

Libraries

Published books

Postal services

Bibliographies

Television, phones

Paperbacks

Pamphlets

Interactive computers

Local drives & discs

WIMP interfaces

Internet

Multimedia

Worldwide Web

Laptops

Email

Search engines

Broadband

3G mobiles

Blogs/Wikis

Pace of Change

http://www.slideshare.net/cplp/technology-in-the-service-of-our-educational-ambitions

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Our educational discourse is largely stuck in a time warp, framed by issues and standards set decades before the widespread use of the personal computer, the Internet, and free trade agreements.

Stewart & Kagan (2005)

Problems are becoming so complex that they cannot be contained in the mind of one individual - problems are held in a distributed manner across networks, with each node holding a part of the entire puzzle.

George Siemenswww.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

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The Changing Educational LandscapeWhat’s the most important technology innovation to impact

teaching and learning in the last 100 years?

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The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind.

Josiah Bumstead

1841On the benefits of the

chalkboard…