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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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From Theory to Design: Exploring the Power & Potential of ‘Connected Learning’, Part One
By S. Craig Watkins 08/02/2012 - 3:05pm Comments
This summer I attended summer school…well kind of.  For three weeks in June I worked with a great team to implement a digital media and design project with high school students.  We followed that project with a two-week game design...
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Standardizing Human Ability
By Cathy Davidson 07/30/2012 - 12:55pm Comments
Here’s a thought experiment.  Let’s try to imagine a society (there were lots of them before modernity) where there is no interest in measuring educational success.  Let’s imagine a society where the only goal of teaching (it’s a high...
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Professor Alec Couros: "The Connected Teacher"
By Howard Rheingold 07/26/2012 - 10:20am Comments
One powerful benefit of networked learning is that when you find something interesting, it often leads to someone interesting – and that someone often leads to entire networks of interesting people. Or, as Dr. Alec Couros puts it, “the tools...
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Web Literacies: What is the 'Web' Anyway?
By Doug Belshaw 07/23/2012 - 9:00am Comments
I’ve recently started in a new role for the Mozilla Foundation. At least half of my job there is to come up with a framework, a White Paper, around the concept of ‘web literacies’. It’s got me thinking about both parts of that term -- both the...
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Declaration of Interdependence
By monika hardy 07/20/2012 - 9:30am Comments
We have massive research and many evidences available...[ie: Diane Ravitch is declaring a bunch of them here, we’ve gathered particular ones here]…that what we’re doing in the name of public education is not serving us well. Perhaps we declare...
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Programmable Pedagogy: Reconfiguring the Future of Learning
By Ben Williamson 07/16/2012 - 3:50pm Comments
What is "pedagogy" and what does it do? In the digital age, the future of education is being redefined in relation to new technologies and digital media, and we are having to rethink what we understand by pedagogy and its possible effects on...
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Writing Without Networks
By John Jones 07/12/2012 - 11:10am Comments
In his essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?," Nicholas Carr relates an exchange between Nietzsche and one of his friends, in which the friend remarked that the philosopher's writing style had changed after he began to use a typewriter. As Carr...
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Hacking the Curriculum 101
By Howard Rheingold 07/09/2012 - 5:20pm Comments
At a time when so many teachers and administrators fear and forbid student access to the internet from school, a high school teacher on the California coast is encouraging students by the hundreds to blog, Skype, gamify, and mindmap...
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Revisiting Techno-euphoria
By Nishant Shah 07/05/2012 - 2:10pm Comments
In my last post, I talked about techno-euphoria as a condition that seems to mark much of our discourse around digital technologies and the promise of the future. The euphoria, as I had suggested, manifests itself either as a utopian view of...
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Back to the Drawing Board
By Liz Losh 07/03/2012 - 6:10am Comments
For people on the academic calendar, resolutions tend to be undertaken in the summer months rather than at the start of the new year in January.  This summer I am picking up a pencil and rethinking my relationship to visual...
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George Couros: Why School Administrators Should Embrace the Social Web
By Howard Rheingold 06/28/2012 - 9:15am Comments
By encouraging administrators to become learner-leaders, to use social media to connect with each other, share best practices and experiment, Canadian school principal George Couros is leading by example, exhortation, and instigation the people...
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The Challenge of Teaching Networked Writing
By John Jones 06/25/2012 - 8:05am Comments
In my last post I wrote about what Derek Mueller calls the "digital underlife," the writing practices of students that fall below the radar of classroom practice, but which are crucial ways in which these students practice literacy. In...
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Should We Fear Children Accessing Facebook?
By 06/21/2012 - 1:50pm Comments
In recent months, there has been an intense media and policy vortex surrounding the questions of when and how children – especially those under 13 – should gain access to popular online sites like Facebook. The outcome of these cultural and...
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On the Importance of Webmaking
By Doug Belshaw 06/19/2012 - 8:40am Comments
I’ve come to realize over the last couple of years just how important the Open Web is for online innovation. It’s a standards-based platform that allows anyone to use relatively low-cost technologies to connect things and people together in new...
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Learning from Kony 2012
By Liz Losh 06/14/2012 - 5:00am Comments
In March of this year, as I taught my winter lecture class that focuses on Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online, I began to receive urgent e-mails from students about a viral video produced by a group called Invisible Children,...
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