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By Whitney Burke 12/09/2011 - 10:25am Comments
Katie Davis is a Project Manager at Harvard Project Zero, where she works with Dr. Howard Gardner in examining the role that digital media technologies play in the lives of adolescents. Her work expands on her doctoral research, which focused...
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By John Jones 12/08/2011 - 11:25am Comments
One of the most pervasive features of computing culture are algorithms, the sets of processes or instructions contained in computer code that determine how a particular task will be completed. While algorithms power everything from your...
Digital Literacy: Search Algorithms are Mechanical Turks Blog Image
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By Antero Garcia 12/05/2011 - 11:50am Comments
Maybe it's because progress reports at my high school were recently given to students, but lately I've been thinking about the role of failure in schools. The F-word, here and its corresponding letter grade support a high-stakes & high-...
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By Whitney Burke 12/02/2011 - 6:40am Comments
Betsy DiSalvo is a Human Centered Computing PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing looking at the ways in which culture impacts technology, and how we can leverage cultural practices into...
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By Raquel Recuero 11/28/2011 - 10:55am Comments
Young people from many countries in Latin America have organized themselves and occupied public places just like their counterparts around the globe.  While some protesters are still camped, others are not.  In both instances, the...
#Occupy and Digital Media in Latin America: Observations Blog Image
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By Whitney Burke 11/25/2011 - 8:15am Comments
Andrew Manches is a 2011-2012 Fellow at the London Knowledge Lab looking at how new forms of technology can support and help young children explore different number concepts. His work builds from his PhD at the University of Nottingham, which...
Using Tangible Technologies
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By Barry Joseph 11/21/2011 - 3:35pm Comments
Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World is nearly 500 pages of workshops and lessons plans dedicated to teaching youth ethics for a digital age.  Produced through a unique collaboration of Harvard’s GoodPlay Project and...
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By Whitney Burke 11/18/2011 - 7:35am Comments
Justin Reich is a fifth year doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education studying the ways in which social media support the development of 21st century skills when used in K-12 settings. This past August, he was among a cohort...
Connecting the K-12 Classroom to the 21st Century Blog Image
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By S. Craig Watkins 11/15/2011 - 11:40am Comments
For more than nine weeks now I have been working with a high school in the Central Texas area, getting to know students, teachers, and administrators.  Along with a fantastic team of graduate students, we are spending time with an after...
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By John Jones 11/11/2011 - 9:25am Comments
For years, a common method for teaching writing in elementary and secondary school was the five paragraph essay. Lately this style of essay has fallen out of favor, for a variety of reasons. However, one of the most compelling reasons to avoid...
Teaching Publishing is a 21st Century Literacy Blog Image