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Global Kids: Recommended Reading...Viewing...Listening
By Barry Joseph 01/05/2010 - 12:50pm 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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The Social Media Classroom
By Howard Rheingold 12/29/2009 - 11:25am Comments
The Social Media Classroom, a browser-based, free and open source environment for teaching and learning, grew directly out of the first minutes I stepped into a physical classroom and began to realize that I needed to readjust my assumptions...
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Classroom Authority and Twitter
By John Jones 12/21/2009 - 3:05pm Comments
An interesting aspect of Twitter's recent surge in popularity has been how educators have embraced the technology, not just for networking and personal communication, but also in the classroom. Many teachers have found Twitter to be a helpful...
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Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010
By Henry Jenkins 12/17/2009 - 8:50am Comments
Earlier this year, we issued a call for proposals for panels and presentations for the first Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Hub at...
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Social Games and Facebook in Brazil and Latin America
By Raquel Recuero 12/14/2009 - 2:11pm Comments
A recent post from Inside Facebook has shown that Facebook is growing fast in Latin America, and a large part of this growth is happening in Brazil (33 percent each month, according to the same set of data). Interestingly, other news pieces...
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Reinterpreting the Digital Divide
By Aaron Knochel 12/10/2009 - 3:25pm Comments
digital divide: the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all. The digital divide is understood to be the gap between those who use and are familiar with...
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On Gaming, Politics, and Reform
By Liz Losh 12/08/2009 - 2:50pm Comments
As the new year rolls around, like many political science professors, Kareem Crayton is thinking about the possible repercussions of next year’s 2010 census and what he calls the “opening skirmishes” of the partisan fight over “who’s going to...
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Meet Meredith Stewart: Teacher...Innovator...Collaborator
By Howard Rheingold 12/03/2009 - 11:35pm Comments
This is how personal learning networks work. When I first started using Second Life for education, I was helped by a teacher there, Kevin Jarrett, who I started following on the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. I use del.icio.us for...
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Sociality Is Learning
By danah boyd 11/30/2009 - 11:35am Comments
As adults, we take social skills for granted... until we encounter someone who lacks them.  Helping children develop social skills is viewed as a reasonable educational endeavor in elementary school, but by high school, educators switch to...
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When Is an Art Museum a Workshop? A Field Report from Korea
By Cathy Davidson 11/25/2009 - 3:55pm Comments
Earlier this month, I participated in the Digital Natives Workshop hosted by KAIST, the MIT of Korea, and attended by researchers from the U.S. and across the Pacific Rim. My talk on adolescence and the science of attention (entitled “The Kids...
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