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Positive Aspects of Connected Learning
Provides:
Highly activated, engaged, resourceful kinds of learning and literacy that young people are gaining with games and online activity.

Negative Aspects of Connected Learning
Leads to:
A decline in social norms and standards. No meaningful communication. Over-reliance on texting and social media. Multitasking and distractibility causing stress and loss of focus.

Risks:
Risks go hand in hand with opportunities in online participation. Not all risks result in harm, and a certain amount of risk is vital for building resilience and learning to cope.

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Connected Learning:
1. Incorporates Social Networking Activities into the Curriculum
2. Encourages Learners to Join Professional Communities
3. Creates “Pen Pal” Style Relationships with Learners in Another     Class
4. Encourages Learners to Create a Personal Dashboard

Do you know other ways?

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Through digital media, youth today have countless accessible opportunities to share, create, and expand their horizons. 

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Through digital media, youth today have countless accessible opportunities to share, create, and expand their horizons. 

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How have you seen this at play in the classroom and beyond?

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Connected learning centers on an equity agenda of deploying new media to reach and enable youth who otherwise lack access to opportunity. 

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Connected learning centers on an equity agenda of deploying new media to reach and enable youth who otherwise lack access to opportunity. 

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What are some ways policy makers and educators can help non-dominant youth have more opportunities for connected learning?

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Why wouldn't "learning" just be the making of connections between things? Why does it need a social ocean? Wouldn't that subject it to a mass dumbing down?

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How are people at work more connected than ever? Is this beneficial or have we lost some aspects of our privacy?

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How are people at work more connected than ever? Is this beneficial or have we lost some aspects of our privacy?

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What examples of connectivism have you noticed in everyday life? 

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What examples of connectivism have you noticed in everyday life? 

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How has your life changed in the past decade? How has connectivism caused these changes

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·       1. Learning and knowledge rests in a diversity of opinions.

·       2. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.

·       3. The capacity to know more, is more critical than what is currently known

·       4. Nurturing and maintaining connections, is needed to facilitate continual learning

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The connected age

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This is "The Connected Age" by EDUCAUSE on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.