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By Howard Rheingold 02/07/2012 - 7:05am Comments
I knew Bryan Alexander was intense when I first spotted him in the audience at a talk I gave in the late 1990s. Just look at him. Old Testament prophet? Civil War general? Straight out of Middle Earth or Hogwarts? It's not just the beard and...
Bryan Alexander: Emerging Learning Technologies
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By Nishant Shah 02/03/2012 - 10:30am Comments
Last year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability amendment to the existing Information Technologies Law in the country, which allowed...
Digital Futures: Internet Freedom and Millennials Blog Image
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By Doug Belshaw 02/01/2012 - 4:25pm Comments
Last year I attended, on average, a conference or similar event every other week. As part of my role as Researcher/Analyst at JISC infoNet it’s an important part of what I do: finding out what’s going on in the UK education sector and...
Conferences as Catalysts for Educational Innovation and Change Blog Image
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By S. Craig Watkins 01/30/2012 - 7:00am Comments
The debates about schools and social media are a subject of great public and policy interests.  In reality, the debate has been shaped by one key fact: the almost universal decision by school administrators to block social media. ...
What Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media Blog Image
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By Cathy Davidson 01/25/2012 - 9:35am Comments
When Frederick J. Kelly invented the Kansas Silent Reading Test, now known as the “multiple-choice test” or the “bubble test,” he was looking for an efficient way to pass students through the U.S. public education system during the teacher...
Why We Need a 4th R:  Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms  Blog Image
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By Howard Rheingold 01/23/2012 - 9:40am Comments
Editor’s Note: This evening Howard will deliver the 2011 Regents’ Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley. His topic: the transformative power of social media and peer learning. Here, in a continuing series, Howard reflects on his...
Toward Peeragogy Blog Image
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By Whitney Burke 01/20/2012 - 8:30am Comments
Aaron Knochel is an assistant professor at SUNY New Paltz, teaching upper division courses in curriculum theory and practice and "technology in the art classroom" in the university’s Art Education program. This past August, Knochel received his...
The Possibilities of Learning and Teaching Art in a 'Connected' World
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By John Jones 01/17/2012 - 8:10am Comments
Not long ago, I was on an airplane waiting for takeoff. Due to the completely reasonable FAA restrictions on using electronic devices, I was reading the print version of a magazine while we waited to taxi to the runway. I soon found I was...
Social Reading and the Foundations of Digital Literacy Blog Image
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By Ben Williamson 01/12/2012 - 9:22am Comments
The idea of an “open source curriculum” has until now seemed entirely at odds with the political standardization and prescription of the curriculum. Are there any signs that curriculum will catch up with the decentered open source potential of...
Remixing the Wikirriculum
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By Aleks Krotoski 01/10/2012 - 8:25am Comments
In the summer of 2011, London erupted in flames. Now, it's not the first time the city has burned; it's had a rich history of conflagration within its walls and revolt in its urban sprawl. But this time it was different: the source of the...
Internet Research & Ethics: The Case of the London Riots Analysis Blog Image