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Thoughts on Pew’s Latest Report on Teens: Notable Findings on Race and Privacy
By danah boyd May 22, 2013 - 5:20pm Comments
Thoughts on Pew’s Latest Report: Notable Findings on Race and Privacy Blog Image Yesterday, Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about “Teens, Social Media, and Privacy.” As a researcher who’s been in the trenches on these topics for a long time now, none of their finding surprised me but it still gives me absolute delight when our data is so beautifully in synch. I... more

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D.I.Y.U.: An Experiment
By Howard Rheingold 02/21/2011 - 12:05pm Comments
Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, grew out of a desire to follow the fun and act on impulse. When I impulsively tweeted  a couple of weeks ago...
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Young Black Males, Learning, and Video Games
By Liz Losh 02/17/2011 - 9:25am Comments
A recent report on educational achievement among young black males describes a “national catastrophe” in primary, secondary, and higher education that is reinforced by policy failures and funding shortfalls. “A Call for Change: The Social and...
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On Parenting, Media, Education and Phobias
By Ben Williamson 02/14/2011 - 11:15am 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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Wikipedia: Information Source and Knowledge Community
By John Jones 02/10/2011 - 2:00pm Comments
One of the challenges facing the digital media and learning community—in fact, all educators—is the rapid pace of technological development that makes necessary the constant evaluation and investigation of new information and communication...
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Wikirriculum: Curriculum in the Digital Age
By Ben Williamson 02/07/2011 - 10:20am Comments
Developing a school curriculum is a complex act of creative design. Add networked participatory media to the mix and curriculum design gets even more complicated. So, from the perspective of digital media and learning research, what kind of...
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Digital Divides, Blog Bans, Games That Cause Change
By Barry Joseph 02/03/2011 - 9:15am Comments
Global Kids points us to important new resources in the digital media and learning field each month. "It's how you play the game" (article): Followers of games and education are familiar with the opening last year in New York City of Quest to...
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Why Teach?
By Cathy Davidson 01/31/2011 - 9:55am Comments
There are as many reasons to teach as there are reasons to learn.  One reason item-response testing (the twentieth-century’s dominant method of testing) is so deficient is that it tends to reduce what we teach to content (especially in the...
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Connected They Write: The Lure of Writing on the Web
By Raquel Recuero 01/24/2011 - 7:35am Comments
The massive adoption of digital media in the everyday life of teens has reshaped social and educational practices in Latin America. A digital divide persists but youth are increasingly more connected. In Chile, for example, more than 96 percent...
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Teaching Digital Literacy
By John Jones 01/17/2011 - 8:35am Comments
In literate societies, the idea of teaching someone how to read but not how to write is practically inconceivable. The dual connection between reading and writing is built into the very notion of literacy, making it a challenge to understand...
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Social Learning, Literacies and Recommended Resources
By Barry Joseph 01/13/2011 - 9:55am Comments
Paleontologist from American Museum of Natural History shows I Dig Brazil kids images of ancient animals. Editor's note: Global Kids does a great job each month pointing us to excellent new resources. Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan for...
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UK Student Protests: Democratic Participation, Digital Age
By Lyndsay Grant 01/10/2011 - 8:45am Comments
The stereotypical characterization of young people as politically apathetic, interested only in using digital media for socializing and gaming, has been punctured by recent events in the UK. University and high school students took to the...
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Mozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning
By Howard Rheingold 01/06/2011 - 9:20am Comments
What if the same energy, ideals, organizational effectiveness, global army of volunteers and code wizardry that created the Firefox web browser could be applied to learning and education? Don't forget that the Mozilla Foundation is all about...
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"Check-in" Learning and Social Learning Networks
By Akili Lee 01/03/2011 - 8:05am Comments
At the core of all of our work at the Digital Youth Network, whether it is understanding the affordances of social learning networks or creating new learner-centered models, is the idea that learners stay engaged by identifying the pathways...
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Disrupting Class: A New Age for Learning
By 12/30/2010 - 1:05pm Comments
Book review: one in an occasional series on works that aspire to reimagine learning in the information age. Let’s start with the shocking news that Disrupting Class authors Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson present a...
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Top 5 Blog Posts on Digital Media and Learning for 2010
By Jeff Brazil 12/27/2010 - 4:00pm Comments
The DML Central blog is just over a year old, and the close of 2010 marks our first full year of publishing thought leadership from our featured bloggers and highlighting best practices in the emerging field of digital media and learning. It...
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