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By Barry Joseph 10/11/2010 - 3:00pm Comments

Editor's note: Global Kids does a stellar job each month pointing us to key resources. We are not Waiting for Superman, We are Empowering Superheroes (Presentation)Social entrepreneur and learning researcher Diana Rhoten, at a recent conference...

Becoming a Master in Knowledge and Networks

By Cathy Davidson 10/07/2010 - 6:40am Comments

Last December, deans from the Graduate School and the College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University came to me and asked if I and the team at the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) team based at Duke...

Brazilian Elections and Emerging Webcitizenship

By Raquel Recuero 10/04/2010 - 11:25am Comments

Diego Casaes and Paula Goes from Global Voices Online have been instrumental in crowdsourcing efforts for the 2010 Brazilian elections. Oct. 3 was Election Day in Brazil. About 135 million Brazilians voted (in Brazil, voting is compulsory) for...

Post-Platonic Writing on the Web

By John Jones 09/30/2010 - 8:50am Comments

In the Phaedrus, Plato famously objected to writing, noting that it would cause a number of ills: it would lead to the decay of memory, it would deceive people into thinking that they possessed knowledge merely because they had read about it,...

Bio-Politics, Video Games, and Kids' Bodies

By Ben Williamson 09/27/2010 - 7:35am Comments

Some recent research findings have got me thinking a lot about Franz Kafka’s story about a young clerical worker who wakes up half-transformed into a giant insect. No, it’s not research from the new journal Horror Studies but something even...

YouMedia: A New Vision for Learning

By Akili Lee 09/23/2010 - 7:25am Comments

In July 2009, YouMedia launched as an ambitious attempt to re-imagine the library as a more relevant learning resource for today’s teens. Understanding that the landscape has changed how teens learn, socialize and self-identify, how do we remix...

Participation, Technology, and the Power of Sharing

By Liz Losh 09/20/2010 - 12:05pm Comments

This year’s convention of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) attracted more than 20,000 programmers, artists, researchers, filmmakers, and gaming professionals - as...

Call for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2011

By Katie Salen 09/13/2010 - 7:40am Comments

Professor Katie Salen is Chair of the Digital Media & Learning Conference 2011. Her work at the innovative Quest to Learn school in New York City has been featured most recently in The New York Times Magazine. As temperatures begin slowly...

Digital Media and the Changing Nature of Authorship

By John Jones 09/08/2010 - 11:40am Comments

Students spend a lot of time writing. Most everyone vividly remembers writing essays for school, and, for many, those memories are not necessarily pleasant. Talk of writing in the classroom often dredges up images of empty pages yawning to be...

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