Learning2.1 » web2.0 http://www.mcglaysia.org Technology and Education, Together at Last! Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twitter in Plain English http://www.mcglaysia.org/2008/03/twitter-in-plain-english/ http://www.mcglaysia.org/2008/03/twitter-in-plain-english/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:24:39 +0000 mcglaysia http://mcglaysia.wordpress.com/?p=5 Do you get Twitter?  I think I kinda’ do.  But I am still not a big user.  This video helps explain part of the attraction.

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Credit: Common Craft

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At the end of the day I was in a meeting and we were talking about 21st century skills and helping students become digital citizens.  It made me think about all this data and how students will need data literacy skills to make sense of it all and also to make the connections that will be needed to make new information.

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Credit: TED Talks

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