R:ED November 21st to November 27th

  1. Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
  2. Rupert Murdoch creates ‘iNewspaper’ – with the help of Steve Jobs
  3. Facebook Vies To Become Your Homepage – And Why That’s A Big Deal
  4. 8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education
  5. Academia.edu Launches A Directory Of 12,500 Academic Journals
  6. Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web
  7. How Online Classrooms Are Helping Haiti Rebuild Its Education System

Leaving the Stage: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

In the digital age, approaches to learning increasingly are influenced by “digital natives”—those who have grown up with the computer and utilize the internet, social media and an array of digital devices as a primary means of communication, entertainment, financial transactions, and education. Digital learners are not simply students or workers to whom traditional instruction is delivered online, but tech-savvy internet pros who construct and manage their own learning environments online, develop their own learning strategies, and define success on their own terms.

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The Learning Approach of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Based on my blog post why Learning Communities are the most efficient way of learning right now I made a Screen Cast about the Learning Approaches of Digitial Natives compared to Digital Immigrants and what effect this should have on the development of learning products.

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