MashupEdu : The New Digital Pedagogy

Dr. Mercedes Fisher and I just finished a new book chapter titled "Pedagogical Mashup: Social Media, Gen Y and Digital Learning Styles" that will be published early next year.

I'll have more details in a future post, but in the meantime I wanted to share the bounty of resources we culled together for the article.

We've saved the links for all the resources and references cited in the book chapter over on the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us, which you can find here: http://del.icio.us/mashup.edu

If you have any questions, or know of a great Education 2.0 resource that we should include, let us know!

Related Articles by Mercedes Fisher & Derek E. Baird

• Making mLearning Work: Gen Y, Learning & Mobile Technologies
  
• Social Software & Online Learning Design
  
• Social Media & Digital Learning Styles

Totally Wired Teens 101

Anastasia Goodstein, author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online, will be speaking on October 9th at the Brighton branch of the Boston Public Library and you're invited!

If you live in Boston, please let folks in your network (especially parents of tweens/teens) know about the appearance. I especially want to encourage educators to attend this informative peek into MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites.

It's free and open to the public, so invite your friends and spend an evening with Anastasia--you'll be glad you did!

Here are the details:

Totally Wired w/Anastasia Goodstein
Tuesday, October 9th, 6:30 p.m.
Faneuil Branch in Brighton
419 Faneuil Street, Boston, MA 02135 (map)

Related Resources

• Schedule > Totally Wired Book Tour
  
• Powell's Books > Totally Wired
  
• Totally Wired Blog
  
• Proctor & Gamble > Being A Girl
  
• YPulse Blog
  
• YPulse Tween Mashup

IBM Lotus Symphony

As an alternative open source productivity software try IBM Lotus Symphony.

Lotus Symphony is a free, 0pen source program offered by IBM, so you're not locked into proprietary software anymore. It allows you to open , edit, and save MS Office files too....
now you have more choices....

Currently IBM has released this version for PCs, and are planning to release a MAC version in the future.

Try the Free Download....

K12 Online Conference 2007

Announcing the 2nd Annual K12 Online 2007 convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice.

The 2007 conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a pre-conference keynote during the week of October 8. The conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries.”

Additional Resources

• K12 Online 2007
  
• Upcoming.org > K12 Online
  
• Flickr > tag > k12online07

Get the Pulse on Totally Wired Teens

Anastasia Goodstein is an award-winning blogger and expert on how American tweens, teens and twentysomethings use technology. She is also the creative genius behind the Ypulse blog and Ypulse Mashup conferences (including the Tween Mashup in NYC this month).

Most recently she is the author of a book about teens and technology called Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online.

In her book Anastasia explores what Gen Y is doing on the Internet and with social media and mobile technology. She also delves into issues around cyberbullying, MySpace (and other social networks), as well as how all this technology is impacting schools and educators.

Anasatasia, thanks to the folks over at Proctor & Gamble, is going on a fall book tour. In addition to being incredibly knowledgeable in how teens are using technology, she is also keenly aware of how technology is being (or not) integrated in the classroom to support these burgeoning digital learning styles.

From personal experience, I can tell you that Anastasia is an engaging and interesting speaker who has the ability to explain (in real English, not geek speak!) how teens use technology, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of their total immersion in technology.

If you have the opportunity to hear her speak, please do so! You'll be glad you did.

Related Resources

• Schedule > Totally Wired Book Tour
• Powell's Books > Totally Wired
• Totally Wired Blog
• Proctor & Gamble > Being A Girl
• YPulse Blog
• YPulse Tween Mashup
• YPulse Mashup '07

Yahoo! & the 21st Century Classroom

Related Resources

• Yahoo! for Teachers + Slideshare
• Slideshare Group > Yahoo! for Teachers
• Yahoo! for Teachers

Ipod Classic - Not Old School

Just imagine web-enhancing your classes using these mobile learning tools for your digital natives.

The opportunities are endless for an out-of-this class learning experience. Students won't even realize they are studying and learning when taking these devices loaded with audio and video resources to the beach, gym, on long commutes, or even while sitting in the library. We know that learning occurs in other places besides the confines of the four classroom walls.

So what is stopping you from trying new methods to help your students learn in ways that seem like 'second nature' to them?