A practical overview of the roles networked communications and social media can play in education during an era of knowledge abundance, and how to build networked identities and cognitive, teaching, and social presence in digital learning environments.
13. "For the first time in human history, two related
propositions are true. One, it no longer
is possible to store within the human brain all of
the information that a human needs.
Second, it no longer is necessary to store
within the human brain all of the information
that humans need.
Education needs to be geared toward
the handling of data rather than the
accumulation of data.”
- Berlo, 1975
35. Empires are constructed from money,
territory, and information.
In the globalized 21st century,
not all empires are geopolitical.
36. 21st Century Fox
• Fox Broadcasting
• 20th Century Fox Film
• 20th Century Fox TV
• Fox Sports
• Fox News Channel
• Fox Business Network
• National Geographic
Channels
• BSkyB
= $73.45 billion
News Corps 2013
• Dow Jones
• Wall Street Journal
• Harper Collins
• New York Post
• The Australian
• The Herald Sun
• The Daily Telegraph
• The Times
• The Sun
= $9.44 billion
45. But it is a key form of connection.
Sometimes…I’ll choose
someone with twenty
followers, because I come
across something they’ve
managed to say in 140
characters, and I think “oh,
look at you, crafting on a
grain of rice.”
- @KateMfD
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