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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 Illiteracy
By John Jones 07/14/2011 - 7:15am Comments
Besides being a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, Roger Ebert is a serious reader, and in a recent post on his blog, he blasts a "retelling" of The Great Gatsby that dumbs down the prose of the original novel for "intermediate level readers...
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What do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
By Doug Belshaw 07/11/2011 - 8:05am Comments
The recent launch of Google+, a new social network, has caused ripples in many different online spaces. From talk of it being a ‘Facebook killer’ because of its enhanced privacy settings to discussion of who one should place in the various ‘...
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Great Resources (July): Assessment, Youth Culture, Games & Learning
By Barry Joseph 07/08/2011 - 9:40am Comments
Do we need badges, specifically badges for learning? In recent years, the answer has been increasingly, if not exactly “yes” then something more like “we better find out before it’s too late.” The new interest around badges appears to have...
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Gamechanger: Digital Media plus Student-centered, Immersive, Peer-led Learning
By S. Craig Watkins 07/05/2011 - 7:00am Comments
In the middle of one of the hottest and driest summers on record, twenty Austin, TX, area high school students showed up for school everyday for four weeks. While the four-week project took place inside a school, how the students worked, the...
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Search Personalization and Digital Literacy
By John Jones 06/30/2011 - 8:50am Comments
The near total dominance of computer search over our information gathering has presented our culture with an interesting (and possibly unique) problem in the history of information management: what you see when you search for something can be...
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Four Questions about Civic Media
By Ethan Zuckerman 06/27/2011 - 9:30am Comments
The civic media field is often better defined by example than in abstractions. The field is so nascent and fluid that any comprehensive, conceptual definition will likely miss key aspects of the field. For those of us who believe civic media –...
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Digital Learning and the Arab Spring
By Liz Losh 06/23/2011 - 1:20pm Comments
As revolution and revolt spreads across the Arab world, Americans often see social networking sites and online video as playing a starring role. Whether it is testimony about police brutality or jubilation in the squares, examples of so-called...
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A Teenager Taps Social Media to Help Change his Struggling Community
By Raquel Recuero 06/20/2011 - 11:25am Comments
"Intense shootings happening at this moment in the Complexo do Alemao!" tweeted teenager Rene Silva on Nov. 9, 2010.  Using his personal Twitter account (@Rene_Silva_RJ) and the Twitter account of a newspaper he created, "Voz da Comunidade...
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Redefining School, Success
By monika hardy 06/13/2011 - 10:40am Comments
We’re a district InnovationLab in Loveland, Colorado, where students have crafted, and just completed year one, of a four-year plan of disruption to redefine school. Based on findings that learning at its best is voluntary, per passion/choice,...
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Rethinking the “New” in "New Media"
By Antero Garcia 06/10/2011 - 10:50am Comments
I’m not a label person. Really, I usually don’t care what we call something. However, sometimes the words we call the tools and practices of teachers get in the way of acceptance, adoption, and policy. At the recent Urban Sites Network...
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The Cosmopolitan Classroom
By Ben Williamson 06/07/2011 - 3:40pm Comments
The globalization of digital media has put pressure on education systems worldwide to be reformed. The emphasis is on schooling that will promote the cosmopolitan identities of globalized digital citizens. But what kind of cosmopolitan...
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Share, Grow, Do: The Potential of Digital Age Learning
By Barry Joseph 06/04/2011 - 9:40am Comments
The National Writing Project has launched a fantastic new web site, Digital Is, to build a community amongst educators exploring how the digital age is changing how we write, share, collaborate, publish and participate in the digital age. More...
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Mobile Phones, Digital Media, and America’s Learning Divide
By S. Craig Watkins 05/30/2011 - 9:05am Comments
During a recent research related visit to New York City I decided to take a stroll down 125th Street in Harlem.  Among the assortment of shops and vendors on the famous stretch that is home to the legendary Apollo Theater were an abundance...
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How does Digital Media impact Youth Political and Civic Engagement?
By Howard Rheingold 05/26/2011 - 9:01am Comments
There’s a lot of conversation about young people’s use of digital media and how it impacts their engagement -- or lack of engagement -- in civic affairs and politics, but not a great deal of empirical work has been done. Until now. Joseph Kahne...
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P2PU: Learning for Everyone, by Everyone, about almost Anything
By Jeff Brazil 05/23/2011 - 6:55am Comments
Meet Philipp Schmidt, co-founder and executive director of Peer to Peer University, an emerging, Web-based global learning community. At P2PU, study groups form and gather online to learn a particular topic. They do group work together and...
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