By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The death of the digital native: four provocations from Digifest speaker, Donna Lanclos
Donna Lanclos, Jisc, 2016/02/23
She writes, "The original formulation even posited that there is something biologically different about the brains of these so-called digital natives, because of their early and frequent interaction with particular types of technology. It's not true and anybody who connects with students and members of academic staff in any kind of practical way knows that people who engage with technology are not motivated by their age category." More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Encrypt
Various authors, Mozilla, 2016/02/17

"Choosing what's public and what's private allows you to be you." That's the tagline from this short video from Mozilla. It's part of an effort to make internet users more aware of personal privacy and security, and to support privacy-preserving mechanisms in web browsers and websites. More...

Le numérique et son impact sur les métiers, la formation et la relation formation-emploi, tel était le thème de la conférence-débat organisée par l’Association française pour le développement de l’enseignement technique (Afdet) des Pays de la Loire le 2 mars dernier. Voir l'article...

This paper describes emergent learning and situates it within learning networks and systems and the broader learning ecology of Web 2.0. It describes the nature of emergence and emergent learning and the conditions that enable emergent, self-organised learning to occur and to flourish. Specifically, it explores whether emergent learning can be validated and self-correcting and whether it is possible to link or integrate emergent and prescribed learning. More...

Désormais, avec internet, le concept de formation tout au long de la vie prend tout son sens : chaque internaute peut se former en ligne à tout ou presque. Encore faut-il savoir se repérer dans l’offre de formation en ligne pour accéder aux ressources adaptées à son profil. C’est l’objet de la conférence en ligne proposée par Pôle emploi le 27 janvier 2016 et dont le contenu reste visualisable sur sa chaîne Youtube. Voir l'article...

BEE CREATIVE is an initiative in formal and informal education aiming to improve digital competences (programming, security, design, communication) and technological creativity among young Luxembourgish residents. More...