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Teaching Digital Literacy
By John Jones 01/17/2011 - 7:35am Comments
In literate societies, the idea of teaching someone how to read but not how to write is practically inconceivable. The dual connection between reading and writing is built into the very notion of literacy, making it a challenge to understand...
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Social Learning, Literacies and Recommended Resources
By Barry Joseph 01/13/2011 - 8:55am Comments
Paleontologist from American Museum of Natural History shows I Dig Brazil kids images of ancient animals. Editor's note: Global Kids does a great job each month pointing us to excellent new resources. Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan for...
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UK Student Protests: Democratic Participation, Digital Age
By Lyndsay Grant 01/10/2011 - 7:45am Comments
The stereotypical characterization of young people as politically apathetic, interested only in using digital media for socializing and gaming, has been punctured by recent events in the UK. University and high school students took to the...
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Mozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning
By Howard Rheingold 01/06/2011 - 8:20am Comments
What if the same energy, ideals, organizational effectiveness, global army of volunteers and code wizardry that created the Firefox web browser could be applied to learning and education? Don't forget that the Mozilla Foundation is all about...
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"Check-in" Learning and Social Learning Networks
By Akili Lee 01/03/2011 - 7:05am Comments
At the core of all of our work at the Digital Youth Network, whether it is understanding the affordances of social learning networks or creating new learner-centered models, is the idea that learners stay engaged by identifying the pathways...
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Disrupting Class: A New Age for Learning
By 12/30/2010 - 12:05pm Comments
Book review: one in an occasional series on works that aspire to reimagine learning in the information age. Let’s start with the shocking news that Disrupting Class authors Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson present a...
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Top 5 Blog Posts on Digital Media and Learning for 2010
By Jeff Brazil 12/27/2010 - 3:00pm Comments
The DML Central blog is just over a year old, and the close of 2010 marks our first full year of publishing thought leadership from our featured bloggers and highlighting best practices in the emerging field of digital media and learning. It...
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Peer Learning Isn’t Easy (But Some Days It’s Amazing)
By Cathy Davidson 12/20/2010 - 8:50am Comments
I’m not teaching a class this term.  I’m doing something lots harder.  I am making a collaborative, peer-led experience available to students.  There are six of them: three graduate students, two undergraduate students, and one...
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The Joy of Writing - With Ancient Tools or New
By John Jones 12/13/2010 - 7:45am Comments
The Telegraph recently published an article announcing that, in the age of Facebook and Twitter, "ancient communication technologies" like handwriting "are current like never before." The title of the article -- "How Twitter made...
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Digital Self-Harm and Other Acts of Self-Harassment
By danah boyd 12/07/2010 - 8:20am Comments
Sometimes, things aren't what they appear to be.  And, in those cases, jumping to the wrong conclusion can be a disservice to everyone.  After I first wrote about Formspring seven months ago, I couldn't stop thinking about teens who...
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