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How to Make a Million Dollars, One Facebook Class at a Time
By John Jones 05/10/2011 - 7:40am Comments
The fall of 2007 was, in many ways, a simpler time: the most popular social network in the United States was an Los Angeles-based outfit called Myspace; Apple had just released an all-in-one touchscreen iPod, phone, and wireless computing...
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Hype, Reality, Insights on Cyberbullying, Videogaming, and Learning Institutions
By Barry Joseph 05/05/2011 - 12:05pm Comments
At the top of the not-to-be-missed list is "Good and Bad Cyberbullying PSAs: How to Tell the Difference," an exceptional blog post by childhood expert Rosalind Wiseman, who insightfully frames the cyberbullying issue. As more and more...
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Should We Design Social Justice into Learning?
By Lyndsay Grant 05/02/2011 - 10:20am Comments
The notion of design is central to the way we think about learning, and to how we think about digital media. Some would argue that learning is "designed in" to digital media such as good video games. But what can this concept tell us about “...
Should We Design Social Justice into Learning?
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Pop-Up University
By Howard Rheingold 04/28/2011 - 3:00pm Comments
If Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, originally germinated out of fun and impulse, the next stage was more scary-serious. As soon as I took people's...
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What Should Civic Learning Look Like in an Age of Social and Technological Change?
By S. Craig Watkins 04/25/2011 - 3:10pm Comments
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and her iCivics team recently convened a thought provoking conference, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age. In partnership with the Aspen Institute, Georgetown Law, and the MacArthur...
What Should Civic Learning Look Like in an Age of Technological Change?
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What Are Digital Literacies? Let’s Ask the Students
By Cathy Davidson 04/21/2011 - 12:35pm Comments
Two weeks ago I blogged on DML Central on “Doing Better by Generation Y” and the tendency for pundits to criticize Gen Y’s absorption with new media, critique how little they know, blame their lack of attention, and castigate their inability to...
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Getting Serious About Reimagining Learning in the Digital Age
By Antero Garcia 04/18/2011 - 12:15pm Comments
I want to have a conversation about what it’s going to take to turn schools around and why digital media -- as it’s currently being used -- isn’t yet helping. I’m going to start with a not-so-subtle secret: if we want to be innovative and if we...
Getting Serious About Reimagining Learning in the Digital Age
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When Robots Write
By John Jones 04/14/2011 - 7:10am Comments
Robots are always in the news, it seems. Whether they are serving as caregivers for the elderly or helping solve the Japanese nuclear crisis, robots are becoming an increasingly important part of contemporary life. Even though we all don't yet...
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"We are Meant to Pulse"
By Barry Joseph 04/12/2011 - 7:40am Comments
Topping the new recommended resources list from Global Kids is "Gaming to Re-engage Boys in Learning," a provocative video looking at the discrepancies in performance and achievement between boys and girls aged 3 to 13 and discussion of why...
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How Can We Help Miguel?
By danah boyd 04/08/2011 - 7:00am Comments
One of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart.  The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a responsibility to at least try.  Given how many educational...
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