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By Barry Joseph 02/15/2010 - 10:50am Comments
Global Kids' New York City-based programs address the urgent need for young people to possess leadership skills and an understanding of complex global issues to succeed in the 21st century workplace and participate in the democratic process....
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By Cathy Davidson 02/08/2010 - 12:20pm Comments
Let’s try a thought experiment.   Let’s assume we live in a culture where all forms of educational achievement tests have been banned and no one is allowed to assign a letter or numerical grade for anything.   How would we...
A Thought Experiment: Why grade? Why test? What if? Blog Image
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By Liz Losh 02/01/2010 - 10:00am Comments
With the first year of the Obama administration officially coming to a close, educators have been thinking about how the president’s online presence could be used for both civic education and media literacy purposes.  Obama came into...
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By Dante Noto 01/29/2010 - 1:34am Comments
Take a few minutes and help influence the next generation of games. The 2010 game design competition sponsored by HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning program is looking for help in deciding which games and designers...
"Game Changer" Competition  Blog Image
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By danah boyd 01/25/2010 - 9:42am Comments
With Facebook systematically dismantling its revered privacy infrastructure, I think it's important to drill down on the issue of privacy as it relates to teens. There's an assumption that teens don't care about privacy but this is completely...
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By John Jones 01/21/2010 - 11:33am Comments
Now that the ebook industry has set its sights on the textbook and educational markets, it's especially important for educators to shape discussion of the benefits and potential impact of ereaders. Rather than bemoan the loss of wood pulp and...
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By Cathy Davidson 01/19/2010 - 9:06am Comments
Historian Robert Darnton has argued that we are currently in the fourth great Information Age in all human history.  The first information revolution came with the development of writing in 4000 B.C. Mesopotamia.  The second was...
Educating for the Future, Not the Past Blog Image
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By Liz Losh 01/14/2010 - 12:26pm Comments
The international conference on Digital Arts and Culture is often a place for previewing coming theoretical trends in digital scholarship.  Long before the formation of separate conferences for the Electronic Literature Organization and...
An Emerging Theory: Things Rule Blog Image
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By Raquel Recuero 01/11/2010 - 10:30am Comments
Translation of the Tweet: "People with more than one thousand followers: RT (Retweet) is a good way to contribute with #projetoenchentes (flood relief in Brazil)." Access to the Internet as well as social networking sites has been growing...
Online Social Networks and Social Mobilization in Latin America  Blog Image