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Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms
By Cathy Davidson January 25, 2012 - 9:35am Comments
Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms Blog Image When Frederick J. Kelly invented the Kansas Silent Reading Test, now known as the “multiple-choice test” or the “bubble test,” he was looking for an efficient way to pass students through the U.S. public education system during the teacher shortage of 1914.  With the advent of World War I, men were off to the frontlines in Europe, women were working in... more

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Wikirriculum: The Promises and Politics of an Open Source Curriculum
By Ben Williamson 01/12/2012 - 9:22am Comments
The idea of an “open source curriculum” has until now seemed entirely at odds with the political standardization and prescription of the curriculum. Are there any signs that curriculum will catch up with the decentered open source potential of...
Remixing the Wikirriculum
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Internet Research & Ethics: The Case of the London Riots Analysis
By Aleks Krotoski 01/10/2012 - 8:25am Comments
In the summer of 2011, London erupted in flames. Now, it's not the first time the city has burned; it's had a rich history of conflagration within its walls and revolt in its urban sprawl. But this time it was different: the source of the...
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School 3.0: Design. Create. Learn. Repeat.
By Whitney Burke 01/06/2012 - 8:25am Comments
Karen Brennan is a PhD student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, where she is a member of the Scratch Team, a group responsible for creating and developing a user-friendly educational programming language, and leader of...
School 3.0: Design. Create. Learn. Repeat.
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When Traditional Policy Goes Bad: Teen Social Use of Mobile Devices in High Schools
By Antero Garcia 01/03/2012 - 10:39am Comments
As I've been lately analyzing my data set related to in-school use of mobile devices at an urban school in South Central Los Angeles, I've been intrigued by some of the general tensions that exist in mobile media use in schools and the way...
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Are they Students or are they Innovators?
By Whitney Burke 01/01/2012 - 9:50am Comments
Lisa Schwartz is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, working with Dr. Kris Gutierrez and a research team on the Connected Learning Research Network (CLRN). She recently completed her dissertation, "Forming...
Are they Students or are they Innovators?
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Recommended Resources: Mobile Learning, Digital Activism, Multitasking
By Barry Joseph 12/29/2011 - 9:45am Comments
Professor of urban planning, Amy Hillier, recently spoke at TEDxPhilly to talk about how data visualization technology can map a city’s emotions and memories. Geographic Information System (G.I.S.) technology has become more commonplace and...
Recommended Resources: Mobile Learning, Multitasking, Civic
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Digital Gaming as a Vehicle for Deep Learning
By Whitney Burke 12/23/2011 - 5:35pm Comments
Mark Chen is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Washington in the LIFE Center and Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (UWISME). He is working with the Center for Game Science (CGS), helping to evaluate player learning of...
Digital Gaming as a Vehicle for Deep Meaning-Making, Situated Learning
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Basta! Telling Stories About Occupy Wall Street
By Ethan Zuckerman 12/21/2011 - 10:40am Comments
Media activists Marisa Jahn and Julian Rubinstein recently joined us at the Center for Civic Media for our weekly Civic Media Lunch series. Marisa is the new director of the People’s Production House, a New York based project that works with...
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Steve Hargadon: Reimagining Education as Networked, Participatory, Social, Global
By Howard Rheingold 12/19/2011 - 9:00am Comments
Steve Hargadon is the Charlie Rose of technology, learning and teaching. On his website, the Future of Education, he has interviewed everyone: from Clay Shirky to Diane Ravitch to Ken Robinson to Howard Gardner, and nearly all those in between...
Steve Hargadon: Reimagining Education
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Forgotten Places: How Digital Media Can Help Support Small, Rural Communities
By Whitney Burke 12/16/2011 - 11:00am Comments
Sean McCarthy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin, in the Digital Literacies and Literatures concentration. His dissertation explores the intersection between community literacy and digital...
Rhetoric, Digital Literacy & Community Engagement: Reviving the Stories of Ameri
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The Digital Others
By Nishant Shah 12/14/2011 - 6:02pm Comments
Based on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’ -- ie, a non-Digital Native -- is that of a Digital Immigrant or...
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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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