13. In terms of educational technology, there has been little attention paid to informal learning.
14. formal learning technology and applications have only really been made available to those enrolled on an educational programme or to those working for larger enterprises.
15. Personal Learning Environments could be to extend access to educational technology to everyone who wishes to organise their own learning
16. to include and bring together all learning, including informal learning, workplace learning, learning from the home
26. Social software - software that lets people rendezvous, connect or collaborate by use of a computer network
27. supports networks of people, content and services that are adaptable and responsive to changing needs and goals
28. Social Software adapts to its environment, instead of requiring its environment to adapt to software
29. Web 2 is a two way process, allowing the internet to be used for creating and sharing information and knowledge, rather than merely accessing external artefacts.
30. web logs, wikis, tools and applications for creating and sharing multi media and tools for sharing all kinds of different personal knowledge bases including bookmarks and book collections.
31. ‘ small pieces, loosely connected’ utilising commonly recognised standards and web services for linking ideas, knowledge and artefacts.
37. The new literacy, the one beyond text and knowledge, is one of information navigation.
38. Bricolage relates to the concrete and has to do with the ability to find something – an object or a tool, a piece of code, a document - and to use it in a new way and in a new context.
39. the need for making judgements is greater than ever before.
40. new forms of learning are based on trying things and action, rather than on more abstract knowledge.
41. “ Learning becomes as much social as cognitive, as much concrete as abstract, and becomes intertwined with judgement and exploration”.
42. 56 per cent of young people in America were using computers for ‘creative activities, writing and posting of the internet, mixing and constructing multimedia and developing their own content
43. "These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other and lots of strangers."
46. Knowing is inherent in the growth and transformation of identities and it is located in relations among practitioners, their practice, the artefacts of that practice, and the social organization…of communities of practice