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Effective communication depends on the ability to read, write, and interact across multiple media and social platforms. (provided by www.transliteracy.com)
In the emerging decade, ideas will migrate across multiple social media platforms: podcasts, digital video, virtual worlds, microblogs, wikis, social networking, tagging, etc. The amplified, transliterate organization will have the capacity to communicate across these platforms. Ways to Start Taking Action
Chuck House, executive director of Media X, Stanford University's membership research program on media and technology, talks about the new skills needed for 21st century jobs.
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Extended human capacity remakes the organization Digital natives and technologies of cooperation […] Explore Amplified Organization
DRIVERS OF CHANGE are major forces of transformation that will shape our efforts to remake learning. They represent the convergence of several trends into emerging ideas that will disrupt traditional assumptions about learning.
Open collaborative platforms enable networked teams to self-organize and support ad hoc leaders. New […] Explore Open Leadership and Sociability
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TRENDS are distinct directions of change that will shape the future of learning.
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Maine has offered a MacBook pro to every high school student, under a lease from Apple Computers. Officials […] Explore Computers for Maine Students
SIGNALS are examples, or early indicators, of the changes described by the trends and the drivers of change.
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LEARNING AGENTS suggest new roles and functions that might emerge in the future ecosystem of learning.
This is a fascinating topic and is actually a continuum of earlier tools, some of which I have used within pedagogy and my professional career in the information field (library and information science) beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s = videotaping - for sharing (i.e. book discussions, project documentaries - pre-podcasts), presentations (virtual tours, tutorials - pre- virtual reality), remote information (CD-ROMs, servers, telnet communications (pre-internet/online).
A report on the 'Universities and Colleges" web site ranks colleges on various measures of Twitter use […] Expand for Continued Reading
A report on the 'Universities and Colleges" web site ranks colleges on various measures of Twitter use. The study included the 100 top ranked colleges and universities by the U.S. News and World Report. A main conclusion is that the institutions use their Twitter accounts for broadcasting, rather than for conversation. Universities are rarely follow others' Twitter statements. The main results:Most accounts - University of FloridaMost followers - Harvard UniversityMost Tweets sent per day - George Washington University.Does this venture into transliteracy show that these institutions are "amplified organizations"?
Associated Topic: Amplified Organization > Transliteracy
Tags: amplified organization , college, twitter,
Added: October 17, 2009
On the Pop!Tech blog, Chris Brogan explores how his digital native children see the world, what skills […] Expand for Continued Reading
On the Pop!Tech blog, Chris Brogan explores how his digital native children see the world, what skills they need to navigate across multiple media and social platforms, and what this might mean for public education.
Tags: Digital Natives, new curriculum,
Added: April 22, 2009
Erin B. Reilly, Research Director for Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based […] Expand for Continued Reading
Erin B. Reilly, Research Director for Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world, and how we preapre young people for it.
Tags: This resource has not been tagged., business, globalization, interview series, literacy,
Added: March 19, 2009
John Palfrey, author of <i>Born Digital</i>, discusses "Digital Natives" - children who were […] Expand for Continued Reading
John Palfrey, author of <i>Born Digital</i>, discusses "Digital Natives" - children who were born into and rasied in the digital world - and the impact on their learning experiences. The interview is part of a series of monthly webinars sponsred by PBS Teachers and Classroom 2.0.
Associated Topic: Amplified Organization > Transliteracy > Games as Practice
Tags: classroom 2.0, Digital Natives, interview series, mobile computing, mobile devices, social media,