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Liz Losh  Profile Picture
By Liz Losh 02/08/2013 - 10:20am Comments
Colombian artist Isabel Restrepo has tackled a variety of projects to promote digital literacy, raise awareness to change public health and safety behavior, and foster civic participation in a number of different youth engagement efforts....
Augmenting Reality: Addressing Trauma with Digital Media Blog Image
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By Ben Williamson 02/04/2013 - 1:00pm Comments
Computer code is rapidly becoming a mature part of contemporary collective life. Commonly understood as the instructions that act on software and computing machines, code itself is now however becoming a significant focus for social scientific...
Code Acts: How Computer Code Configures Learning Blog Image
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By Howard Rheingold 01/29/2013 - 7:05pm Comments
Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ) will deliver the keynote at this year's Digital Media & Learning Conference, "Democratic Futures," March 14-16 in Chicago, and we asked Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) to vlog with Zuckerman, director of the Center...
DML Conference 2013: Democratic Futures (Ethan Zuckerman, Keynote)  Blog Image
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By Doug Belshaw 01/28/2013 - 7:15am Comments
I have a confession to make. It’s a shameful, dark secret that I fear may be common to many adults around the world. And, when I was teaching, it was certainly one that I saw shared by many students I came into contact with. It’s something you...
Some Thoughts on Interest-based Pathways to Learning	 Blog Image
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By Nishant Shah 01/24/2013 - 9:35am Comments
I encountered the Aaron Swartz memorial the other day that helps ‘liberate’ a randomly selected article from JSTOR, as an act of civil disobedience, to commemorate both the legacy that Swartz leaves behind, but also the high-profile witch-hunt...
Remembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the Fight Blog Image
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By David Theo Goldberg 01/21/2013 - 6:30pm Comments
MOOCs, it seems, are driving us to distraction. The objects of so much current investment, fiscal and psychological, if MOOCs (massive open online courses) haven’t reached you yet, they are just a click away, coming to a screen near you soon....
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By John Jones 01/18/2013 - 7:30am Comments
In my last post, I argued that an alternative to the Web 2.0 vision of the Internet—one where individuals "create value" for the corporations that run online networks—are the decentralized networks of the Occupy movement. Perhaps the clearest...
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By Mimi Ito 01/15/2013 - 7:00am Comments
It has been almost a year since the release of the connected learning principles in March 2012 on connectedlearning.tv. For the Connected Learning Research Network, this has been a year of digging into our research agenda for connected learning...
Connected Learning: A New Synthesis Report  Blog Image
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By Jeff Brazil 01/11/2013 - 7:35am Comments
Does the information age free us to pursue learning centered on individuals and not institutions? Does each of us have a part to play in the possibility of education? Can a broader definition and responsibility for education bring us all closer...
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By Antero Garcia 01/07/2013 - 9:05am Comments
Lately, I’ve been pleased with the ways digital tools are allowing me to engage and collaborate with the media producers that most challenge my thinking. I had intended to blog about how the comic book Wild Children terrifies and motivates me...
'Imagine A World Where...