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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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Four Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide
By danah boyd 12/12/2011 - 8:30am Comments
Over the last couple of years, I've laid awake at night asking myself uncomfortable questions about bullying and teen suicide. I don't have answers to most of the questions that I have, but I'm choosing to voice my questions, fears, and doubts...
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Adolescent Identity Formation in a Digital Age
By Whitney Burke 12/09/2011 - 10:25am Comments
Katie Davis is a Project Manager at Harvard Project Zero, where she works with Dr. Howard Gardner in examining the role that digital media technologies play in the lives of adolescents. Her work expands on her doctoral research, which focused...
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Digital Literacy: Search Algorithms are Mechanical Turks
By John Jones 12/08/2011 - 11:25am Comments
One of the most pervasive features of computing culture are algorithms, the sets of processes or instructions contained in computer code that determine how a particular task will be completed. While algorithms power everything from your...
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Thinking about Failure: Ways to Tell New Stories about Public Education
By Antero Garcia 12/05/2011 - 11:50am Comments
Maybe it's because progress reports at my high school were recently given to students, but lately I've been thinking about the role of failure in schools. The F-word, here and its corresponding letter grade support a high-stakes & high-...
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Young Black Males, Learning, and Video Games
By Whitney Burke 12/02/2011 - 6:40am Comments
Betsy DiSalvo is a Human Centered Computing PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing looking at the ways in which culture impacts technology, and how we can leverage cultural practices into...
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#Occupy and Digital Media in Latin America: Observations
By Raquel Recuero 11/28/2011 - 10:55am Comments
Young people from many countries in Latin America have organized themselves and occupied public places just like their counterparts around the globe.  While some protesters are still camped, others are not.  In both instances, the...
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Using Tangible Technologies for Next-Generation Learning
By Whitney Burke 11/25/2011 - 8:15am Comments
Andrew Manches is a 2011-2012 Fellow at the London Knowledge Lab looking at how new forms of technology can support and help young children explore different number concepts. His work builds from his PhD at the University of Nottingham, which...
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Recommended Resources: Digital Citizenship, New Media Literacies, Games and Learning
By Barry Joseph 11/21/2011 - 3:35pm Comments
Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World is nearly 500 pages of workshops and lessons plans dedicated to teaching youth ethics for a digital age.  Produced through a unique collaboration of Harvard’s GoodPlay Project and...
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Connecting the K-12 Classroom to the 21st Century
By Whitney Burke 11/18/2011 - 7:35am Comments
Justin Reich is a fifth year doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education studying the ways in which social media support the development of 21st century skills when used in K-12 settings. This past August, he was among a cohort...
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‘Connected Learning’ in Edge Communities
By S. Craig Watkins 11/15/2011 - 11:40am Comments
For more than nine weeks now I have been working with a high school in the Central Texas area, getting to know students, teachers, and administrators.  Along with a fantastic team of graduate students, we are spending time with an after...
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Teaching Publishing as a 21st Century Literacy
By John Jones 11/11/2011 - 9:25am Comments
For years, a common method for teaching writing in elementary and secondary school was the five paragraph essay. Lately this style of essay has fallen out of favor, for a variety of reasons. However, one of the most compelling reasons to avoid...
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No Child Left Behind: The Economic Motive of National Education Policy
By Cathy Davidson 11/09/2011 - 12:40pm Comments
I’ve often thought about how our national educational policy of No Child Left Behind, passed in 2002, reinforces and connects to the increasing income disparity in the United States.  Some of the economic implications of NCLB are obvious,...
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Role-Playing Racial History through Digital Games
By Liz Losh 11/07/2011 - 12:25pm Comments
Teaching historical empathy through gaming is an important area in digital media and learning, but collaborations between university professors and game designers aren’t always easy.  Nonetheless, UC San Diego Theater and Dance Professor...
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Media, Youth Activism & Participatory Politics: Case Studies in a Digital Age
By Whitney Burke 11/04/2011 - 1:43pm Comments
The growing use of digital media for social change is nourishing a dialogue about its impact on young people’s involvement in civic and political affairs. The Media Activism Participatory Politics (MAPP) project, an undertaking of the MacArthur...
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How Age Restrictions Complicate Digital Media & Learning
By danah boyd 11/01/2011 - 5:10am Comments
Digital media and learning scholars have long understood the importance of access when it comes to digital technologies.  Whether we’re talking about the digital divide or the participation gap, we all recognize that access is the first...
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