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Teens, Social Media, and Celebrity: Anatomy of an Incident
By Raquel Recuero 08/27/2010 - 5:35am Comments
Recently, two Brazilian teenagers practicing sexting on Twitcam, became international news. More than 25,000 Twitter users watched the live transmission of the couple’s intimate moments. Copies of the video and screen shots quickly flooded...
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Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
By danah boyd 08/23/2010 - 7:20am Comments
Carmen and her mother are close.  As far as Carmen's concerned, she has nothing to hide from her mother so she's happy to have her mom as her 'friend' on Facebook.  Of course, Carmen's mom doesn't always understand the social...
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If technology is making us stupid, it's not technology’s fault
By David Theo Goldberg 08/16/2010 - 2:15pm Comments
There has been growing concern that computers have failed to live up to the promise of improving learning for school kids.  The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PBS have all done stories recently calling into question the benefits...
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Students: Panic Over Online Privacy, Identity is Overblown
By Aaron Knochel 08/03/2010 - 11:30pm Comments
Blogger Chris Sinclair attends the University of California, Irvine, and brings a youth perspective to DMLcentral. Going on the Internet and reading blogs these days I feel like all I see are warnings about the evils of online networking,...
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Education: Time to experiment, learn, share, mobilize
By Cathy Davidson 07/26/2010 - 8:40am Comments
At HASTAC, we’ve been very excited this month to be one of the “community partners” for the upcoming Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: Learning, Freedom and the Open Web taking place in Barcelona, Nov. 3-5. The MacArthur Foundation is one of the...
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Veiled Censorship: Social Media and Education in Brazil
By Raquel Recuero 07/19/2010 - 12:00pm Comments
Internet access in Brazil has been growing. Data from IBOPE/Net Ratings from December 2009 showed that Brazil had 67.5 million Internet users, with 1.2 million new users just since September 2009. Accessing the Internet from work, schools, and...
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Recommended Reading, Viewing, Clicking
By Barry Joseph 07/15/2010 - 6:20am Comments
Editor's note: Global Kids does a great job searching, sorting, and filtering the 24/7 flow of resources in the digital media and learning field.  We've asked them to sift through their current picks and point us to some of the best....
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Probing What's Next in Learning and Technology, Pt 2
By John Jones 07/12/2010 - 7:50am Comments
Children in Nigeria use laptops from the One Laptop Per Child movement. In the second part of my interview with Keene Haywood, Director of Research at the New Media Consortium, publisher of the annual Horizon Report on technology in education,...
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Searching for What's Next in Learning and Digital Media
By John Jones 07/06/2010 - 7:50am Comments
A young girl in rural South America uses a laptop from the One Laptop Per Child movement.  The New Media Consortium (NMC) is publisher of the annual Horizon Report, which "seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to...
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It's the Learning, Not the Technology - Jessica K. Parker
By Howard Rheingold 06/30/2010 - 4:25pm Comments
Without a doubt, your 15-year-old daughter can text one-handed while holding her phone under her desk. Your 11-year-old brother leads his own World of Warcraft guild. Your fellow college students are Googling you during the first class you have...
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