Links for October 18th

• Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
  Clever chaps those designers.
  Tags: Web2.0 design guides
• YouTube – A Vision of Students Today
  a short video summarizing some characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created in collaborat
  Tags: video students youth
• 100+ Web 2.0 online Generators | Yazzie’s Online Journal
  Lists like this do make me re-apprepreciate editors.
  Tags: Web2.0 list code
• Digital Nativism
  In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthle
  Tags: digital_native youth technology hype
• BLC07 McIntosh No.1: Why Scotland Has Been Blogging For 5 Million Years
  Scotland’s education system is arguably using proportionally more social bookmarking, online video sharing, image sharing, wikis, feed readers and blogs than any other country in the world”
  Tags: Scotland national education social_computing
• BLC07 McIntosh No.2: How Public Is Your Public Body?
  I don’t know one public body, particularly in the education world, that doesn’t have the mantra, the strategies or the policies which make sure that stakeholders are consulted, that dialogue is continuously deepened and that the organisation “really gets
  Tags: public_bodies education strategy
• BLC07 McIntosh No.3: We’re adopting! A strategy for social media in education
  “Social media, and whether or not it’s adopted in any organisation, is almost entirely down to the culture of the organisation. “
  Tags: social_software strategy education introduce
• LIFT07: Sugata Mitra and outdoctrination
  “Educational technology and pedagogy that is digital, automatic, fault-tolerant, minimally invasive, connected, and self-organized. Call it outdoctrination.”
  Tags: education future technology outdoctrination