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Lessons From Sweden
By Cathy Davidson 06/24/2010 - 9:10am Comments
This month I had the pleasure to spend time in Sweden, hosted by Patrik Svensson, Director of the HUMlab at Umea University in northern Sweden, and then with Göran Blomqvist, CEO of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond as well as Arne Jarrick, a prominent...
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Crowdsourcing Scholarship
By Liz Losh 06/21/2010 - 8:15am Comments
A few weeks ago, just before the 2010 THATCAMP, a well-known technology and humanities “unconference,” got underway at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the center’s director, Dan Cohen, and his colleague and co-...
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Rethinking the Human Subjects Process
By 06/14/2010 - 4:30am Comments
Get a group of social scientists together to talk about prospective research and it won't take long before the conversation turns to the question of human subjects board approval. Most researchers have a war story, and all have an opinion of...
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How COPPA Fails Parents, Educators, Youth
By danah boyd 06/10/2010 - 9:10am Comments
Ever wonder why youth have to be over 13 to create an account on Facebook or Gmail or Skype? It has nothing to do with safety.  In 1998, the U.S. Congress enacted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) with the best of...
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A professor with unconventional methods, message
By Liz Losh 06/08/2010 - 5:15am Comments
Digital media and learning initiatives often talk in utopian terms about a “future without books,” but don’t say that to New School faculty member Trebor Scholz.  Scholz, who teaches in the Department of Culture and Media, has had great...
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Privacy and social media sites: a growing, global concern
By Raquel Recuero 06/04/2010 - 11:00am Comments
Raquel Recuero, a Brazilian professor, is an Internet culture researcher in South America. Wherever social networking sites have reached the mainstream, privacy seems to have become a more common worry for users. Brazilians, in general, have...
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It's an amazing time to be a learner - Will Richardson
By Howard Rheingold 06/01/2010 - 2:00pm Comments
Your personal learning network is not just a network of people you learn from. A "pln," as enthusiasts call them, is a network of people who are learning together. I was given this essential lore - and truth be told, much of what I know about...
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Reanimating education: ideas, questions, inspirations
By Aaron Knochel 05/28/2010 - 5:40am Comments
Editor’s note: We asked student blogger Chris Sinclair to examine all the discourse, content, and conversation in and around the recent TEDxNYED event on education reform, curate it, and comment on it from a student’s perspective. If I had to...
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Emergent Networks: Fotologs as Performances of the Self
By Raquel Recuero 05/24/2010 - 11:25am Comments
Raquel Recuero, a Brazilian professor, is an Internet culture researcher in South America. Fotolog, a photo-sharing site, grew quickly in South America, becoming one of the most popular social networking services in Chile, Brazil and other...
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Recommended reads, links from Global Kids
By Barry Joseph 05/20/2010 - 8:00am Comments
Editor's note: Global Kids regularly points us to their current favorite resources. Please tell us what you're reading or watching and why others should as well! At the top of our list is the best-selling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta...
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