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Assisting in accessing the internet

Accessing the internet

Back when I started these blogs I wanted to think about how we could use technology to support learning in a variety of settings.  A recent thread on the ALT discussion list regarded Assistive Technologies, and how specific access needs are addressed.  Ideally, all websites would follow ‘Universal Design’ principles – they’d be designed for easy access by everyone – and there are tools to assist designers in doing this.  But for whatever reason, sometimes that doesn’t happen, sometimes users n more >

Social Learning Analytics - Making sense of people making sense together

Thinking about information, together

Last time I talked about why the ways individuals think about knowledge, might impact on their behaviour, and how we could support more advanced behaviours.  Of course, this also depends on how we - collectively - think about knowledge and act on this, through our policy and the ways we structure websites, etc. For example, how education/assessment policy might encourage particular ways of thinking about knowledge.

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