It is en educational community that cuts across geographic, systemic and sectoral boundaries to serve the needs of educators in K-12, academic, vocational, corporate and not-for-profit environments. “ The Island of Jokaydia is designed to provide a flexible and dynamic space for educators in Second Life which includes informal and formal meeting spaces, plus a range of interesting objects and tools to explore. This month restarts the Community Capers project to case study some of the brilliant examples of communities of practice that exist across the globe. The

Braided Learning: Promoting Active Professionals in Education The MirandaNet Fellowship is a professional organisation of educators, researchers, policy makers, and developers of software and hardware who have a uniting conviction that teaching and learning can be transformed by the use of digital technologies. Such collaborative problem solving is important to many ICT teacher educators, who have relatively little access to technical support or to view new developments. It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line.

Tags: research case study Community capers IMCoPs action research Research Findings MirandaNet education CoP community of practic Through this blog we will hear about communities from a number of perspectives. I will relate my research perspective, we will meet the community managers and members, take field trip to each community and have several opportunities to listen to

The MirandaNet Fellowship is a community of UK and International educators, educational researchers, technology consultants focused on the domain of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in school education and in supporting action research best practices. MirandaNet Homepage Core group members act as part of a professional consultative organization, where professionals talk, listen and collaborate with government, industry, teacher educators and researchers. MirandaNet’s evolution began after the 1992 closure of the Toshiba sponsored Project Miranda at the London Computing Centre.

Joanna Kay opened her spaces in Second Life in November 2007 with leasehold areas offered to other educators to support the cost of the then one sim. Jokaydia now covers 3 sims (islands) and is home to hundreds of educators. They vary from small scale builds by individuals with projects, like this Community Capers blog, through to large educational institutions and not-for-profits. Come visit Jokaydia and meet the community members Field trip  Friday 25th September (USA) 01.00

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Hopefully this brief post will act as a marker of progress rather than just a register of the current limitations of the UK education system. To regard it as anything except a critical element within a wider digital literacy framework, and to attempt to teach it alongside an antiquated, generally programme-specific ICT education is to short change our learners, and to fail to recognise the technological, social and economic shifts that have take place globally. Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one.

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We won’t educate them, we’ll just y’know, stop it . mean, we banned sex education and that stopped everything . Banning vs education: What does failing to properly educate our children on social media look like? I’m still miffed about the Department of Education stopping the work that Al Upton was doing I’ve got a good idea. Let’s ban kids from using social networks.