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Student-led Curriculum: Demanding, Digital, Compelling
By Liz Losh 12/01/2010 - 8:50am Comments
At November’s University of California Institute for Research in the Arts conference, the emphasis was on college courses that couldn’t be planned out according to set syllabi and fixed course objectives, because students were expected to be co...
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Why Is Everyone Worried About Attention Now?
By Cathy Davidson 11/23/2010 - 2:45pm Comments
If you read the newspapers of the early twentieth century, you realize that everyone was fretting then about the “horseless carriage.”  They were positive that the new technology of an automobile that drove itself would push humans beyond...
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New Media Literacy: Critique vs Re-design
By Lyndsay Grant 11/18/2010 - 9:15am Comments
A central concern of media education has been to empower young people with the ability to question, analyze, critique and deconstruct messages they encounter in media. But in a global remix culture, the power and relevance of critique itself...
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"Bullying" Has Little Resonance with Teenagers
By danah boyd 11/15/2010 - 10:45am Comments
Ever had one of dem days you wish woulda stayed home / Run into a group of niggas who getting they hate on / You walk by they get wrong you reply then shit get blown / Way outta proportion way past discussion / Just you against them, pick one...
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How Learning Spaces Reflect Our View of Children
By Ben Williamson 11/11/2010 - 7:05am Comments
Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of the 1950s, have largely been...
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Community and Writing in an Age of New Collectives
By John Jones 11/08/2010 - 8:30am Comments
In Larry Sanger's history of the development of Wikipedia in Open Sources 2.0, the Wikipedia co-founder writes: For months I denied that Wikipedia was a community, claiming that it was, instead, only an encyclopedia project, and that there...
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Literacies, Semantic Web and Recommended Resources
By Barry Joseph 11/01/2010 - 8:05am Comments
Editor's note: Global Kids does a stellar job each month pointing us to excellent resources.  The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition (report) The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition, part of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project,...
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Learning, Playing, Designing: Video Games in School
By Howard Rheingold 10/21/2010 - 12:19pm Comments
Most education has been fashioned around the reasonable-sounding objective of equipping students with tools to solve problems. This is one facet of what some educators call the "eat your broccoli" approach to education -- “Sit still and learn...
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Social Justice and Diverse Cultures of Participation
By Lyndsay Grant 10/18/2010 - 8:15am Comments
Many educators are excited by the new opportunities and challenges for learning that digital media brings us. Stories about 11-year-old Kai, a learner at Quest to Learn school in New York, paint a picture of a young person for whom digital...
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Shelly Terrell: Global Netweaver, Curator, PLN Builder
By Howard Rheingold 10/15/2010 - 11:00am Comments
When I started using social media in the classroom, I looked for and began to learn from more experienced educators. First, I read and then tried to comment usefully on their blog posts and tweets. When I began to understand who knew what in...
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