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By Ben Williamson 03/22/2011 - 7:47am Comments
What are the connections between emotional education and digital media and learning? Faced with a global economic recession, civic unrest, and major environmental catastrophe, governments around the world are now obsessed with cheering us all...
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By Ben Williamson 04/01/2011 - 3:00pm Comments
Learning with digital media is often articulated through an affective vocabulary of play, informality, enjoyment, and creativity, as opposed to the formality, standards and routines of conventional schooling. This difference in the language of...
School, Work and Play: Decoding Digital Age Shifts Blog Image
Ben Williamson  Profile Picture
By Ben Williamson 03/22/2011 - 7:47am Comments
What are the connections between emotional education and digital media and learning? Faced with a global economic recession, civic unrest, and major environmental catastrophe, governments around the world are now obsessed with cheering us all...
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By Ben Williamson 09/27/2010 - 7:35am Comments
Some recent research findings have got me thinking a lot about Franz Kafka’s story about a young clerical worker who wakes up half-transformed into a giant insect. No, it’s not research from the new journal Horror Studies but something even...
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By Ben Williamson 11/11/2010 - 7:05am Comments
Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of the 1950s, have largely been...
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By Ben Williamson 02/14/2011 - 10:15am Comments
Modern cinema can teach us how youth and media are widely understood in our cultures. Cinema, like works of literature and visual art, can represent and diagnose our widespread fears and fantasies about young people and about how we, as...
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By Ben Williamson 03/22/2011 - 7:47am Comments
What are the connections between emotional education and digital media and learning? Faced with a global economic recession, civic unrest, and major environmental catastrophe, governments around the world are now obsessed with cheering us all...
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By Ben Williamson 04/01/2011 - 3:00pm Comments
Learning with digital media is often articulated through an affective vocabulary of play, informality, enjoyment, and creativity, as opposed to the formality, standards and routines of conventional schooling. This difference in the language of...
School, Work and Play: Decoding Digital Age Shifts Blog Image
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By danah boyd 04/08/2011 - 7:00am Comments
One of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart.  The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a responsibility to at least try.  Given how many educational...
How Can We Help Miguel? Blog Image
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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...
Using Tangible Technologies
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By Ben Williamson 11/11/2010 - 7:05am Comments
Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of the 1950s, have largely been...
How Learning Spaces Reflect Our View of Children Blog Image
Ben Williamson  Profile Picture
By Ben Williamson 09/27/2010 - 7:35am Comments
Some recent research findings have got me thinking a lot about Franz Kafka’s story about a young clerical worker who wakes up half-transformed into a giant insect. No, it’s not research from the new journal Horror Studies but something even...
Bio-Politics, Video Games, and Kids' Bodies Blog Image
Ben Williamson  Profile Picture
By Ben Williamson 02/14/2011 - 10:15am Comments
Modern cinema can teach us how youth and media are widely understood in our cultures. Cinema, like works of literature and visual art, can represent and diagnose our widespread fears and fantasies about young people and about how we, as...
On Parenting, Media, and Education  Blog Image
Ben Williamson  Profile Picture
By Ben Williamson 03/22/2011 - 7:47am Comments
What are the connections between emotional education and digital media and learning? Faced with a global economic recession, civic unrest, and major environmental catastrophe, governments around the world are now obsessed with cheering us all...
Ben Williamson  Profile Picture
By Ben Williamson 04/01/2011 - 3:00pm Comments
Learning with digital media is often articulated through an affective vocabulary of play, informality, enjoyment, and creativity, as opposed to the formality, standards and routines of conventional schooling. This difference in the language of...
School, Work and Play: Decoding Digital Age Shifts Blog Image
Whitney Burke Profile Picture
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...
Using Tangible Technologies
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By danah boyd 04/08/2011 - 7:00am Comments
One of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart.  The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a responsibility to at least try.  Given how many educational...
How Can We Help Miguel? Blog Image
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By danah boyd 04/08/2011 - 7:00am Comments
One of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart.  The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a responsibility to at least try.  Given how many educational...
How Can We Help Miguel? Blog Image
Ben Williamson  Profile Picture
By Ben Williamson 04/01/2011 - 3:00pm Comments
Learning with digital media is often articulated through an affective vocabulary of play, informality, enjoyment, and creativity, as opposed to the formality, standards and routines of conventional schooling. This difference in the language of...
School, Work and Play: Decoding Digital Age Shifts Blog Image
danah boyd Profile Picture
By danah boyd 04/08/2011 - 7:00am Comments
One of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart.  The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a responsibility to at least try.  Given how many educational...
How Can We Help Miguel? Blog Image