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By Cathy Davidson 04/04/2011 - 11:00am Comments
When Lauren Sanders concentrates on her childhood memories, she can recall “the fuzzy sounds of dial-up Internet and the generic female voice cheerfully state, ‘You’ve Got Mail.’” Born in 1990, Lauren is an official member of “Generation Y,”...
Doing Better By Generation Y
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By Ben Williamson 04/01/2011 - 3:00pm Comments
Learning with digital media is often articulated through an affective vocabulary of play, informality, enjoyment, and creativity, as opposed to the formality, standards and routines of conventional schooling. This difference in the language of...
School, Work and Play: Decoding Digital Age Shifts Blog Image
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By Howard Rheingold 03/28/2011 - 5:00pm Comments
When I started using digital media in my classroom, I began my search for mentors by inspecting Will Richardson's social bookmarking networks on Diigo, then followed on Twitter some of the people Will paid attention, which led to Web 2.0...
Einstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age Blog Image
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By Raquel Recuero 03/24/2011 - 11:55am Comments
A viral video of an Australian boy retaliating against a bully at school has sharply ratcheted up offline and online discussions of cyberbullying. On websites in numerous countries, young and old alike have recounted their own bullying problems...
Cyberbullying: An International Perspective Blog Image
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By Ben Williamson 03/22/2011 - 7:47am Comments
What are the connections between emotional education and digital media and learning? Faced with a global economic recession, civic unrest, and major environmental catastrophe, governments around the world are now obsessed with cheering us all...
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By Lyndsay Grant 03/18/2011 - 7:25am Comments
Times of crisis are times of change and provide an opportunity to imagine alternative educational futures. Following the UK’s winter of protests about cuts to education budgets and rising tuition fees, students and staff are raising questions...
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By Barry Joseph 03/15/2011 - 2:00pm Comments
At the top of the must-read list this month is "How the Internet Gets Inside Us," an article by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnick who offers an insightful overview of the range of opinions found in recent books regarding the shifting relationship...
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By Joseph Kahne 03/10/2011 - 9:00am Comments
In a cartoon depicting the evolution of Good Samaritanism in the digital age, a man walks by a homeless person lying on the street and does nothing. In the next frame, he is at his computer -- "What's this?!! Sally needs a bag of fertilizer for...
Is the Virtual World Good for the 'Real' One? Blog Image
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By John Jones 03/07/2011 - 9:00am Comments
In a recent post on her blog, Duke's Cathy Davidson responds to a New York Times article on the increasing popularity of iPads in schools, arguing that iPads, or any technology, aren't a panacea for education.  To support her point,...
Revolutionary New Technology + Old Teaching Methods = ? Blog Image
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By Cathy Davidson 03/04/2011 - 6:45am Comments
When Tim Berners-Lee and a handful of colleagues began developing the World Wide Web, they did so without a blueprint but with something better:  a principle.  What if all the world’s knowledge could easily be transferred between us...
Designing Learning From "End to End"  Blog Image