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Commentary #3 – Alexander’s Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? and Web 2.0: Storytelling, Emergence of a New Genre

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dennis Pratt

Alexander (2008) defines the Web 2.0 as a way of creating Web pages focusing on microcontent and social connections between people, which exemplify that digital content can be copied, moved, altered, remixed, and linked, based on the needs, interests and … Continue reading →

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Commentary #3 – The imperative of developing critical media literacy skills

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Leonora Zefi

     Kellner and Share’s article “Toward critical media literacy: Core concepts, debates, organizations, and policy” (2005) focuses on the imperative need for new pedagogical approaches and strategies to help students develop critical media literacy skills.  They state that “Critical media … Continue reading →

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Commentary #3 – Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Are we designing social futures in Canada?

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Lynette Manton

                                                         Pedagogy of Multiliteracies In 1996, the New London Group created a manifesto … Continue reading →

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Why Professor Johnny Can’t Read: Understanding the Net Generation’s Texts

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Bridget

I chose to do a commentary on “Why professor Johnny Can’t Read: Understanding the Net Generation’s Texts”, by Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley. In their essay, they compared the learning styles of the Net Generation (born after 1982) to the … Continue reading →

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Commentary 3 – Web 2.0: Creating New Students and New Educators

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Garth

            Schools are equipped with computers and wifi, and students are coming to school as experts in these new technologies (Alexander, 2008). As students become more expert at web 2.0 tools such as blogging, social … Continue reading →

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Commentary 3: Web 2.0 Digital Stories and Distributed Cognition

Posted on November 26, 2011 by kenbuis

In the digital space of flows, where ideas collide and coincide across a fluid state of chaos within data streams across the nodes of our network society, there exists a new level of creativity impacting global society.  Like sparks of … Continue reading →

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Learning Theories and the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Jasmeet Virk

Introduction In its 1996 Manifesto, the New London Group examined the radical changes in the personal, public and working lives of people which were being propelled by globalization, technological evolutions, and increasing cultural and social diversity. They laid out pedagogical … Continue reading →

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Multiliteracies: To Be Continued…

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Danielle

Bryan Alexander’s (2006) article entitled Web 2.0: A New Wave for Teaching and Learning looks at a number of Web 2.0 concepts, projects and practices including some of the issues and implications for education.  While perhaps emergent at the time … Continue reading →

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Purposefully transferring the power of Web 2.0 to the classroom

Posted on November 25, 2011 by David Symonds

Introduction The World Wide Web has been transformed over the past two decades from an emergent environment mimicking print-based non-digital predecessors, to a living, breathing, evolving global community in which the distinction between author and audience is progressively less and … Continue reading →

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The Development of the Electronic Book

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Mark Barrett

***This is a second draft of this commentary.  I frustratingly lost my first one after it was done and this is my attempt to reconstitute it from memory! The Kindle, the Nook, the Bebook.  These are but three examples of … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0 and cultural transformations

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Angela Novoa

Today learners use words in different formats (e.g., on paper, images, audio files, weblogs, video editors, web editors, presentation software, instant messaging etc). All these formats can be integrated within one product when users interact through Web 2.0. According to … Continue reading →

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A Commentary on Bolter’s Chapter ” The Breakout of the Visual”

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Steph

In the chapter called “The Breakout of the Visual”, Bolter (2001) continues to speak about the process of remediation, specifically about the current power struggle between visual media and text. Bolter describes a battle between word and image over which … Continue reading →

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