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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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The Social Relevance of Public Writing
By Antero Garcia 11/13/2012 - 2:00pm Comments
I want to talk about the nature of writing in today's age of participatory media. In particular, I want to talk about how writing within my classroom has helped foster community amongst the students. In fact, the subtitle of this post could be...
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Gaming the System
By Liz Losh 11/08/2012 - 8:10am Comments
Before the presidential election took place this week, many teachers used attention to the political drama unfolding across the nation as a way to draw students into classroom discussions and assignments.  Lesson plans that focus on...
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Contextualizing Big Data and Lessons for DML
By John Jones 11/05/2012 - 5:35am Comments
Recently I had the opportunity to go to the Internet Research 13.0 (IR13) conference hosted by the University of Salford. One popular theme of the conference was the increasingly important role that big data is playing in Internet research. As...
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Connected Learning: The Experience of Education Reimagined
By Jeff Brazil 11/02/2012 - 6:15am Comments
We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew to make a series of short films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called "courageous" and "transformational." This film introduces the story of connected learning, the outcome of a six-...
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Elizabeth Lawley: “Just Press Play” — Adding a Game Layer to the Undergraduate Experience
By Howard Rheingold 10/29/2012 - 9:45am Comments
I can’t recall a time when I wasn’t aware of Professor Elizabeth Lawley. Ten years ago, there weren’t many tenure-track academics who were also active bloggers, avid gamers, and social media researchers. Now Professor of Interactive Games and...
Elizabeth Lawley: “Just Press Play” — Adding a Game Layer to the Undergraduate
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Five Elements to Help Redefine Public Ed
By monika hardy 10/25/2012 - 1:20pm Comments
Imagine we redefine public education so that Dewey’s democratic society is co-created ongoingly, bettering each moment we practice it. The purpose of public education is a democratic society -- John Dewey Imagine public education becomes the...
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Habits of Living: Being Human in a Networked Society
By Nishant Shah 10/22/2012 - 1:20pm Comments
Recently, in Bangalore, a cluster of academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners, were supported by Brown University, to assemble in a Thinkathon (a thinking marathon, if you will) and explore how our new habits of everyday life need to...
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Some Thoughts on iPads and One-to-One Initiatives
By Doug Belshaw 10/18/2012 - 9:00am Comments
In my experience, there's broadly three ways to relate to any kind of educational technology: 1) Technological -- decide on the technology (for whatever reason) and that determines what you do pedagogically; 2) Pedagogical -- settle upon the...
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Coded Curriculum: The New Architectures of Learning
By Ben Williamson 10/15/2012 - 9:55am Comments
How should we understand the part played by code in digital media and learning? We are accustomed to arguments that digital media are affecting our existing practices of reading, looking, seeing and hearing, yet relatively little is said of how...
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From Theory to Design: Exploring the Power & Potential of ‘Connected Learning,’ Part Two
By S. Craig Watkins 10/11/2012 - 10:15am Comments
One of the more compelling aspects of connected learning is the opportunity for students to create personalized learning pathways that establish important links across the different nodes in their learning ecology. I had a chance to witness the...
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Facebook, Public Education and Equity: A 13-year-old Fights for a "Better School"
By Raquel Recuero 10/08/2012 - 11:30am Comments
Last April, 9-year-old Martha Payne created a blog to discuss the quality of the food served in her school called "Never Seconds." In the blog, she discussed the quality (and quantity) of food available in her school using terms such as "food-o...
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Passion, Projects & Play: Restoring Creativity in the Classroom
By Howard Rheingold 10/04/2012 - 9:40am Comments
At my elementary school in Phoenix, Arizona, problem students like me were often sent to the art teacher’s room. Unfortunately for me, my objection to sitting in a little desk, arranged in rows with other little desks, then moving in single-...
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Why We Need a Reddit and Kickstarter for Educational Research
By Antero Garcia 10/01/2012 - 10:15am Comments
Lately, I've been thinking about what digital media can do to improve what we know about learning. And you know what I've decided? I think it is time that learning needs to be kickstarted (kickstarter.com) and I think we need Reddit (reddit.com...
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What Constitutes 'Rigour' in Our 21st-Century Educational Systems?
By Doug Belshaw 09/26/2012 - 12:15pm Comments
Recently Michael Gove, the English Secretary of State for Education, announced the Government's plans to "restore rigour and confidence to our examination system with the introduction of English Baccalaureate Certificates in English, maths, the...
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The Global One-Room Schoolhouse: John Seely Brown
By Jeff Brazil 09/24/2012 - 11:50am Comments
John Seely Brown has been immersed in innovation and learning for the last three decades. As a visiting scholar and adviser to the provost at the University of Southern California, co-chair of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, former chief...
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