Information_Revolution

=Information Exploration=

How has information dissemination changed in education? This is something that [|Dr. Michael Wesch] at[| Kansas State University]  is exploring in his Digital Ethnography course. He has posted a number of videos on YouTube posing questions and exploring how education and our youth are changing due to technology.

Explore the videos they have posted at his YouTube profile [|HERE].

Dr. Wesch has a separate web site for this exploration titled [|Mediated Cultures].

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How has technology changed our perception of life? Dove explores that in [|their campaign about beauty].

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=How would your respond to:=

How many times a day do you txt? How many emails do you send a day? Do you read any [|blogs] ? Do you use [|RSS] ? Do you [|IM] ? Do you [|Twitter] ? Do you use [|Del.icio.us] ? Do you use [|Flickr] (or other photosharing site)? Do you have your own [|URL] ? Do you have an account on [|Facebook], [|MySpace] , etc?

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=Online Learning=


 * [|iTunesU] - FREE!
 * Ohio University is looking at using Second Life (they own a virtual island) for [|science education] as well as having a [|virtual presence within Second Life]  for online learning.  They have built [|online games for learning.]
 * Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching [|(MERLOT)]
 * BBC's [|online learning]
 * Columbia University - [|online learning]

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[|WIRED] Magazine did a series of articles about Education 2.0


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