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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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PortoAlegre.cc: Giving A City Back to Its Citizens
By Raquel Recuero 06/11/2012 - 2:15pm Comments
Several new projects are trying to use cyberspace as a platform to help citizens build an information network and share information about their cities. One effort that has achieved significant traction is PortoAlegre.cc, a platform for the...
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Worthy Reads: Mobile Learning, Flipped Lessons, New Media Literacies
By Barry Joseph 06/07/2012 - 9:08am Comments
Fast Company magazine recently featured this article, from design studio Frog’s Fabio Sergio, on how mobile devices will provide learning opportunities for people across age and income spectrums. It offers a nice overview, from a design...
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A Vision for Learning Designed by Youth for Youth: Notice. Dream. Connect. Do. Be.
By monika hardy 06/04/2012 - 6:15am Comments
The basics as defined by school is a very limited and restrictive set of skills. The word basic is often referred to as essential. Essential translates to absolutely necessary or extremely important. This mindset calls our publicly prescribed...
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Pop Culture Criticism as 21st Century Skill
By Michael Lachney 05/31/2012 - 12:35pm Comments
As part of the Digital Youth Network’s (DYN) 2011-2012 professional development, we have set out to explore how critical media literacy can help Chicago middle school students become responsible and savvy digital producers. Through hours of...
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Going Low-Tech to Teach New Literacies
By Liz Losh 05/28/2012 - 8:05am Comments
Ethnic Studies professor Wayne Yang takes a distinctive approach to new media literacies to get UC San Diego students to host their own Comic-Con comic book convention with original graphic novel projects.   Although print artifacts are...
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Social Media and Public Sphere: The #VetaDilma Movement and Brazil's Forests
By Raquel Recuero 05/25/2012 - 4:45pm Comments
Today Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vetoed several parts of a controversial forest bill that had been approved by Brazil’s Congress and promoted by powerful agricultural interests. Until today, it was unclear how President Rousseff would...
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Beyond the Console: Gaming, Learning & Literacy
By Whitney Burke 05/24/2012 - 10:10am Comments
Tanner Higgin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside studying race, gender, and power in digital media cultures. He's also researching and developing play and project-based curriculum at the nonprofit...
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How and Why to Make Your Digital Publications Matter
By Cathy Davidson 05/21/2012 - 12:00pm Comments
I don’t have the metrics, but I’ll stake my professional reputation on the following  statement:  In the last one or two years, there has been a seachange in how even the most traditional academic, nonprofit, or corporation values,...
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Recommended Reads: On What Kids Can Learn, Minecraft, Generation Y
By Barry Joseph 05/17/2012 - 6:42am Comments
Common Sense Media, known as the go-to resource for solid reviews of movies, books, and television, just released a new ratings initiative to evaluate the learning potential of websites, video games, and mobile apps. You can learn more about it...
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Digital Underlife and the Writing Classroom
By John Jones 05/14/2012 - 6:05am Comments
In a 1987 paper, Robert Brooke argued that instructors needed to pay attention to the ways that students didn't pay attention, like passing notes in class or whispering conversations. Building on the work of Erving Goffman, Brooke argued that...
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Technology, Cities & Collaboration
By Whitney Burke 05/11/2012 - 11:30am Comments
As Assistant Professor of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design, Laura Forlano’s interests converge at the intersection of technology, cities, and culture. Prior to her professorship in design, Forlano was a...
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DIY U: Interview with Anya Kamenetz
By Howard Rheingold 05/09/2012 - 5:55am Comments
I was very excited by Anya Kamenetz’s book, DIY U, which I highly recommend, and her free ebook, The Edupunk’s Guide! I’m also very interested in what Anya is doing with P2PU and teaching people, helping people, learn to be self learners. Her...
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Exploration: Digital Media and Social Inequality
By Whitney Burke 05/04/2012 - 12:45pm Comments
Christo Sims is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley's School of Information and a graduate researcher for the Connected Learning Research Network’s Leveling Up project. The project team is investigating the learning dynamics of interest-driven...
Exploration: Digital Media and Social Inequality
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Why Critical Design Literacy is Needed Now More Than Ever
By S. Craig Watkins 05/01/2012 - 11:40am Comments
One thing is clear in our work at Texas City High School (TCHS) this year: students like to create their own media.  Students at TCHS create their own YouTube channels, compose original music, comics, games, Tumblr pages, art work, and...
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Reality, the Game: Interview with Interactive Expert Jeff Watson
By Howard Rheingold 04/27/2012 - 12:05pm Comments
When I read Henry Jenkins’ description of the Pokemon-like card game he played with entering students at USC’s interdisciplinary Cinema School, I realized that the project Tracy Fullerton had described in September, 2011, had come to pass. Don’...
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