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Democratizing Learning Innovation
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to promote openness and opportunity on the Internet. He is on the conference committee for the 2012 Digital Media & Learning Conference in San Francisco, Calif., Mar.… more
First Person: The Book Tour in the Age of the Internet
Note: We asked tech-savvy scholar Cathy Davidson to reflect on the realities of an author's tour in the digital age. Her new book, "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn" explores whether our brains are cut out for the age of ubiquitous connection.… more
Privatizing Public Education and 'Learning to Cheat' as a Digital Literacy
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about public education?" At the school I teach at in Los Angeles, in particular, things have been pretty bleak. Let’s put some pieces together regarding this topic by looking at a few news articles.… more
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