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Navigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era
By Whitney Burke March 8, 2013 - 10:35am Comments
Navigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era Blog Image Last fall, a New York man rented out his apartment bedroom through Airbnb, a popular website for short-term stays. Unbeknownst to him, he was breaking the law. When he returned to his apartment days later, he was facing more than $40,000 in fines. Airbnb is not legally obligated to post explicit warnings on its site notifying users of the possible legal... more

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Worthy Reads: Youth Media Production, Games & Learning, Pottermore, Web Freedom
By Barry Joseph 10/27/2011 - 12:15pm Comments
A new report on YOUmedia, a youth-centered digital learning initiative at the Chicago Public Library, explores what it means to reimagine learning, literacies and libraries. The report takes a hard look at the first year of the YOUmedia project...
Worthy Reads: Youth Media, Games & Learning, Pottermore, Web Freedom
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In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
By Nishant Shah 10/24/2011 - 9:35am Comments
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital Native’. Drawing from three...
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Digital Opportunities for Civic Education
By Whitney Burke 10/21/2011 - 6:45am Comments
Earlier this year, Professor Joseph Kahne and a group of civic learning scholars announced a key finding from a study of student Internet usage: youth who pursue their interests online are more likely to be engaged in civic and political issues...
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Serendipity, aka "Accidental Discovery": Does the Web Help or Hurt?
By Aleks Krotoski 10/17/2011 - 8:45am Comments
I am obsessed with serendipity. It's become an almost pathological fascination since 2009, when I was inspired by a happy confluence of what I was doing then, and something that bumped up against it. I'm curious about what serendipity is, how...
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Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media
By John Jones 10/13/2011 - 7:45am Comments
The following is a shortened version of a talk I gave at the "Engaging the Public" symposium held at Washington & Jefferson College on Oct. 1. According to Cathy Davidson's Now You See It, 65 percent of students entering school today will...
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Learning, Freedom, Youth, and the Web: Brazil
By Raquel Recuero 10/10/2011 - 11:45am Comments
Freedom of speech and social mobilization is new for many countries in Latin America. Most have had closed governments and dictatorships for the last 30 years. However, because of the spread of social media, political action, protests and...
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Democratizing Learning Innovation
By Howard Rheingold 10/06/2011 - 1:40pm Comments
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...
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First Person: The Book Tour in the Age of the Internet
By Cathy Davidson 10/05/2011 - 4:25pm Comments
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"...
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Privatizing Public Education and 'Learning to Cheat' as a Digital Literacy
By Antero Garcia 10/03/2011 - 11:40am Comments
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...
Learning to Cheat as a Digital Literacy
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Re-imagining Media for Learning
By Howard Rheingold 09/29/2011 - 12:50pm Comments
Tracy Fullerton is an experimental game designer and associate professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she directs the Game Innovation Lab. Her design research center has produced several...
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Badges for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate
By Doug Belshaw 09/26/2011 - 6:50am Comments
Last week saw the launch of the DML Competition. I’ve been following the development of Mozilla’s Open Badges project for a few months now and so was (and still am) excited by the potential of badges in education. The current ‘elevator pitch’...
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The Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric
By danah boyd 09/23/2011 - 5:35am Comments
We all know that teen bullying - both online and offline - has devastating consequences.  Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide is a tragedy.  He was tormented for being gay.  He knew he was being bullied and he regularly talked about the...
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Seeing the Classroom as a Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change
By Howard Rheingold 09/20/2011 - 10:25am Comments
Antero Garcia, who teaches English at a high school in South Central Los Angeles, is a PhD candidate, focusing on critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and game play. He utilizes his classroom as a center of...
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Conectar Igualdad: Argentina’s Bold Move to Build an Equitable Digital Future
By S. Craig Watkins 09/16/2011 - 7:45am Comments
I recently had a chance to participate in a wonderful conference in Buenos Aires.  El Congreso Internacional de Inclusión Digital Educativa (The International Conference on Digital Inclusion Education) was an event that celebrated and...
Argentina’s Bold Move to Build an Equitable Digital Future
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Mitch Resnick: The Role of Making, Tinkering, Remixing in Next-Generation Learning
By Howard Rheingold 09/13/2011 - 7:50am Comments
Mitch Resnick is on the conference committee for the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World." As Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, he develops new...
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