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Defining transliteracy is important for those professionals who are driven to develop actions based on a prescript definition.
Transliteracy on my mind | Transliteracy Librarian
6 Tips on How to Choose Reference Management Software | Literature Review HQ
It appears that I’ve been living a very sheltered life as far as reference management software goes.Using Twitter To Support Learning -- Campus Technology
Twitter has become ubiquitous and many educators use it or a similar micro blogging technology to maintain connection with students in terms of announcements, information flow, and assignment updates. While some instructors have experienced success in community building and numerous articles detailing the more common uses of the platform are available online, a couple core questions have emerged. Can Twitter help support and facilitate the instructional process itself?
Over past 125 years, contact lenses have come a long way. What started off as relatively thick brown glass eye coverings first created by German ophthalmologist Adolf Fick has evolved into biosensor-laden polymer lenses that can measure eye movement, glucose concentrations in tears and intraocular pressure. Now a team of researchers is investigating whether the integration of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), circuitry and antennas into modified contact lenses can transform them into miniature augmented reality displays.
Computerized Contact Lenses Could Enable In-Eye Augmented Reality | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
The 21st century skills teachers should have
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My thoughts about learning technology and all things digital. I'm interested in how technology can be made to work for us, particularly in education and training.
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A couple of weeks ago we started a “series” based on the work of those lovely chaps at the 21 st Century Fluency Project – Lee Crockett , Ian Jukes and Andrew Churches very kindly gave me permission to use their new book Literacy is NOT Enough to create a number of “guest-posts” ( now, if we could only get more writers to don their “ creative commons ” hats )!
Getting FLUENT with the 5 FLUENCIES… | Interactive Teaching and Learning | Scoop.it
Online Learning is More Than Learning, Online « Online Learning Update
by Kelly Meeker, Open Sesame Blog New form learning begets a new kind of learning: Where the learner is empowered to find information as she needs it, and where information is organized, shared and accessible to everyone.Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century: Resources
We have included example templates for scaffolding this process, including a “Research Inventory” to keep track of media bits, an “Argument Plan” to develop the logic, a “Design Planner” to help with thinking about lay-out and a set of “Assessment Checklists” to help with the evaluation of the product.