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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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Digital Media & Learning Conference 2012: Learning Innovations in a Connected World
By Howard Rheingold 09/08/2011 - 12:20pm Comments
The 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, it's being announced today, will explore the richer, deeper learning enabled by the emergence of Web-enabled, mobile-based platforms that promote new models of peer-to-peer learning, anywhere/...
Digital Media & Learning Conference 2012
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'How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn'
By Whitney Burke 09/07/2011 - 9:00am Comments
Duke University’s Cathy Davidson has staked out a reputation as a creative intellectual force committed to transforming the industrial model of education for the digital age. In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the...
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Changing the Game
By John Jones 09/06/2011 - 7:20am Comments
Across the U.S., students are returning to their schools and college campuses. It also appears to be the beginning of a mini-revolution in the way digital media and learning are seen to affect the underlying structure of our educational system...
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Worthy Reads: On Minecraft, Borges, Khan, Next Generation Museums
By Barry Joseph 09/01/2011 - 8:55am Comments
If you haven’t yet heard about Minecraft, then get ready. We can’t go to an education conference without hearing talk about it. The widely popular sandbox game has sold more than 3 million units, though it’s still in beta. Each player gets...
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What do Google, Open Source Software and Digital Literacies have in Common?
By Doug Belshaw 08/29/2011 - 6:35am Comments
Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, hit the headlines recently with an attack on the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) curriculum in UK schools. It “focuses on teaching how to use software,” he said to the audience gathered for the...
What Google, Open Source, Digital Literacies have in Common
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"Digital Is" Website Accelerates Teacher-to-Teacher Learning and Collaboration
By Antero Garcia 08/22/2011 - 9:50am Comments
Over the course of four days earlier this summer at a lush retreat in Seattle, I had the opportunity to write and engage with some of the most exciting teachers I’ve been able to interact with in my career. Aside from the fact that I spent most...
Website Accelerates Teacher-to-Teacher Learning
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Recommended Reads (August): Youth Culture, Games & Learning, Teaching 2.0
By Barry Joseph 08/18/2011 - 2:55pm Comments
The latest fascinating report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, "Families Matter: Designing Media for a Digital Age," offers one of the first large-scale studies to explore ideas parents have about their young children’s use and access of media...
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Life Narratives in Social Media
By Lyndsay Grant 08/15/2011 - 3:30pm Comments
The stories we tell about ourselves are immensely powerful. In a digital age, how do we use social media to construct and tell these stories? How we explain who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going constitute important...
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Turning Fifth Graders into Game Designers and Mobile Learners
By Elisabeth Jacknis 08/12/2011 - 8:50am Comments
Take 40 precocious fifth graders, a box full of iPhones, and a group of game designers and educators, stir, and release onto the busy streets of New York City. What may sound like chaos is actually Mobile Quest, a mobile game design camp in its...
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Youth Learn 'Design Thinking' at Digital-Age Summer Camp
By Razeen Zaman 08/08/2011 - 7:10am Comments
Peals of laughter ring across the room as teens watch other teens maneuver to avoid being hit on the head. There are no bullies here - actually, game designer Kaho Abe is presenting a video clip of a game she created where the goal is to avoid...
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Wanted (And Needed): 'Radical' Collaborations
By monika hardy 08/01/2011 - 12:15pm Comments
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. This insight from Anne Frank is evidenced today all across the world in education and many other domains. People are doing amazing things. Start ups...
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Digital Fluency: Empowering All Students
By Liz Losh 07/28/2011 - 3:20pm Comments
Although “digital literacy” is often a phrase associated with programs that have utopian pedagogical visions, it also can become a term attached to rigid curricular requirements, standardized testing, and models of education that stigmatize...
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Digital Media, Learning, and the Future
By Ben Williamson 07/26/2011 - 1:05pm Comments
New research findings from a global study of education systems suggest that the promise of a hi-tech, high-skills, high-wage future for kids is a fantasy. Does digital media and learning offer a better future? It's always important to remember...
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Learning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online
By Howard Rheingold 07/22/2011 - 2:45pm Comments
This is a golden age for motivated self-learners, given the availability of open educational resources - from MIT's OpenCourseWare, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and YouTube EDU to the Khan Academy and Apple's iTunes U, together with every possible...
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Multiliteracies and Designing Learning Futures
By Antero Garcia 07/19/2011 - 11:10am Comments
Multiliteracies is an area of interest for me and my classroom, and I am hoping to use this post for dialogue and collective theory-building. But first, I want to talk briefly about being a book geek. As an English teacher, I am passionate...
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