Educational Origami

This is a very interesting infographic examining generation media consumption http://adage.com/article/adagestat/infographic-generational-media-usage-time-day/229831/ especially if we start to link this with the recent BBC article and the anecdotal vignettes from teenagers about their sleepless habits – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21876118 There is a definite digital citizenship aspect to this. The students in the BBC article are not looking after themselves or [...]

In this update of on the wire I have a couple of interesting articles and the odd infographic to share 1. BBC Future – Why your brain loves to get feedback – http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130226-why-your-brain-loves-feedback An interesting article on the importance of feedback. This supports the research from Professor John Hattie in his book Visual Learning about [...]

Here is an interesting infographic that compare the Old favourite of facebook and the new kid on the block Google + The original site of the infographic is – http://plusweek.ly/facebook-vs-google-infographic-via-singlegrain/

Its an interesting thought and one worth considering? There is obviously a direct power cost that we see each and every time we use our personal digital devices, be they connected directly to mains electricity or using store energy, charged from the mains. But there are also hidden energy cost that we should consider. The [...]

There’s Facebook, facebook and more facebook. Between the movie about facebook – The social Network – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network and times man of the year http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html Facebook and its Developer/creator Mark Zuckerberg are getting huge publicity. Not that it really needs it with over 1/2 a billion people on the network – http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics I love facebook and [...]

Twitter is one of those polarising tools. I love twitter, for me its a brilliant way to communicate, ask questions and get answers. The number of times I have been stuck and asked my PLN (Personal Learning Network) for support is huge. But its more than that, its a way of sharing, I use twitter [...]