Learning with the Fang

Next Tuesday I am presenting to the AGM of CEGSA - Computers in Education Group, South Australia at the EDC in Hindmarsh. I’m thinking about confronting attendees with the harsh reality that we can never keep up with the new technologies kids are embracing and suggest a way forward that involves ‘Inverting the Paradigm’.
I […]

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Don, I see your comment on the previous post - well done.  Hopefully you are reading this via an RSS Reader and you have subscribed to feed.mikseyfang.com.  You should also see a post I just did about hiring a fairy floss machine (from my personal blog).
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Fang - Mike Seyfang

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After several rounds of banter between myself, Beth Kanter and Stephen Downes I think I finally get something rather important - that a switch of the default from copyright to non-commercial sharing is what the creative world really needs.
That switch of the default position would free creative types from even having to think about complex […]

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I am fishing for ideas on ways to extend the conversation about (and hopefully with) Jimmy Wales upcoming visit to Australia for Education.au in April. My particular interest is in how educators could respond in creative ways to the democratisation of knowledge by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through technology.
To that end, I […]

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What’s been distracting me this week?

Wondering what sort of technology tools could help teachers cope with geeky kids:

What if you could help track/log student activity on social web
(even from their mobiles while on school grounds)
Measure student/class impact on contributions (to things like wikipedia)
Rewarding kids who find ‘bad’ wikipedia pages about stuff they are researching

hmmm…

postproduction

Will (try […]

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