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Archive for August 2009

The struggle for control created by social media.

Posted by: leeerickson on: August 24, 2009

I’ve been mulling this around in my mind for a while and the more I think about it, the more I come to believe that all the anxiety and excitement centered around social media is about control – gaining it, and losing it. Social media, user-generated content, and an expanding set of social tools have [...]

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Holy crap. What’s going on in education today?

Posted by: leeerickson on: August 11, 2009

Holy academic turmoil, Batman. What’s all this I’m hearing about the state of education today? Some say students don’t care. Professors, researchers, parents, and even the kids themselves say students today just don’t care. They’re not interested in education. They would rather be Facebooking, IMing, or otherwise engaged even during class. Check out this video [...]

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Learning and new technology, what works, what makes sense?

Posted by: leeerickson on: August 8, 2009

As an educator, I’ve always looked for new and interesting ways to engage my students (that desire also followed me into the corporate world when I started speaking and presenting to clients). As a future college professor, and hopefully a soon to be teaching assistant, I’m collecting examples of how professors are using technology to [...]

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That’s cool.

Posted by: leeerickson on: August 4, 2009

In the that’s just plain cool department Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale. Try to sing along.

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Book review: Grown up Digital (understanding today’s Net Generation).

Posted by: leeerickson on: August 3, 2009

Title: Grown up Digital Author: Don Tapscott Pub Date: 2009 This is Tapscott’s update to Growing up Digital and it attempts to address how the Internet, social networking, and this new world of hyper-connected world is shaping and reshaping today’s “net generation” (i.e., those between 11-31 years old). The book addresses 9 different “concerns and [...]

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