Anne Nortcliffe

I recently heard a school librarian describe her approach to getting kids to take an interest in projects she wants them to do. She offers them two alternatives: Plan A is for the kids to use any and all of the computers, phones and other technology at their disposal to do the project. Plan B is to do it the old way—hauling books, encyclopedias, dictionaries etc. off the shelves, and copying and writing only by hand. Almost all the kids choose plan A, she said. They see plan B as punishment—often severe punishment.

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Educational Technology (2013). Pages: 1-2.

Marc Prensky et al.

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The Professors Who Make the MOOCs

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What is it like to teach 10,000 or more students at once, and does it really work? The largest-ever survey of professors who have taught MOOCs, or massive open online courses, shows that the process is time-consuming, but, according to the instructors,…

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Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement

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first monday (2011). Pages: 1-9.

Alison White, David. and Le Cornu et al.

This article proposes a continuum of ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ as a replacement for Prensky’s much&dash;criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals’ engagement with the Web. We argue that the metaphors of ‘place’ and ‘tool’ most appropriately represent the use of technology in contemporary society, especially given the advent of social media. The Visitors and Residents continuum accounts for people behaving in different ways when using technology, depending on their motivation and context, without categorising them according to age or background. A wider and more accurate representation of online behaviour is therefore established.

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Teaching machine and programmed learning

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