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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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Webinar: How Can We Disrupt the “Banking” System of Education?
By Jon Barilone 03/29/2012 - 9:00am Comments
Earlier today, connectedlearning.tv hosted a live webinar with librarian Buffy Hamilton, aka “The Unquiet Librarian,” on the topic: How do libraries cultivate participatory literacy to disrupt what Paulo Freire calls the "banking" system of...
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The Role of Tech vs The Purpose of Education
By Lyndsay Grant 03/26/2012 - 4:25pm Comments
Working in the field of digital media and learning, where the important role of new technologies in learning seems self-evident, the slow pace of change in mainstream education can feel frustrating. Responding to this challenge, we give a lot...
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What Tech Wants: A People Agenda
By monika hardy 03/22/2012 - 6:25pm Comments
I loved Kevin Kelly’s book, and especially loved the message I heard from it. What I heard was that tech wants us to become more humane, not less. What I heard, was that tech wants us to get to know ourselves, each other, and the world around...
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What's Next for DML?
By Antero Garcia 03/20/2012 - 10:00am Comments
I recently returned from the engaging and rewarding DML2012 both exhausted and invigorated. As I debrief the many ideas and challenges to existing learning practices that were shared and explored at this year's DML conference, I am struck by...
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Reflecting on Dharun Ravi's Conviction
By danah boyd 03/19/2012 - 10:10am Comments
On Friday, Dharun Ravi -- the Rutgers student whose roommate Tyler Clementi killed himself in a case narrated through the lens of cyberbullying -- was found guilty of privacy invasion, tampering with evidence, and bias intimidation (a hate...
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The Future of Learning and Teaching: It's Time for 'Audacious Goals'
By Whitney Burke 03/16/2012 - 5:20pm Comments
In an impassioned call to action, Diana Rhoten kicked off the 2012 Digital Media and Learning conference by suggesting that education will never see its long-overdue renaissance without "audacious goals." Senior vice president for strategy in...
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Reflexivity: Why We Must Choose to Shape, and Not Be Shaped By, Technology
By Aleks Krotoski 03/14/2012 - 11:20am Comments
In her new book, Consent of the Networked, Rebecca Mackinnon offers a reality check: "We have a problem,” she writes. “We understand how power works in the physical world, but we do not yet have a clear understanding of how power works in the...
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Distributed Writing: From Bad to Brilliant
By John Jones 03/12/2012 - 2:10pm Comments
In the report "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture" the authors argue that distributed cognition is a key skill that citizens must master to be active in participatory culture. Of course, most writing depends on some form of...
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SXSWedu, Highlights
By Jon Barilone 03/10/2012 - 8:45am Comments
In just its second year, attendance at South by Southwest’s educational branch more than doubled from the inaugural year. SXSWedu offered a broad range of participants and guest speakers, including public K-12 educators, school district...
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Reflections on DML2012 and Visions of Educational Change
By Mimi Ito 03/07/2012 - 4:20pm Comments
A few days back home after DML2012, I've been browsing through the blogosphere and tweet streams and reflecting on the various conversations I had at the event. One unfortunate side-effect of being part of the organizing is that I can't get to...
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Badges for Learning: Threading the Needle Between Skepticism and Evangelism
By David Theo Goldberg 03/06/2012 - 9:50am Comments
There has been much ado the past week or so about whether badges can offer a viable means for assessing learning. It has been boisterous on both sides. Badge evangelists such as the Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure (with which those of us at...
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Connected Learning: Designed to Mine the New Social, Digital Domain
By Constance M. Yowell, Ph.D. 03/01/2012 - 7:30pm Comments
Focus on education has perhaps never been greater. As we seek to understand the impact of the internet and this age of connection, it has focused attention on a topic of extraordinary importance: the need to reimagine the experience of learning...
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DIY Coding
By Liz Losh 02/28/2012 - 8:30am Comments
Like many in the digital media and learning community, I am a fan of the free and open source computer programming language, Processing, which can be easily downloaded at Processing.org.  Processing is an incredibly accessible computer...
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Stop the Cycle of Bullying
By danah boyd and John Palfrey 02/24/2012 - 1:20pm Comments
On 22 September 2010, the wallet of Tyler Clementi - a gay freshman at Rutgers University - was found on the George Washington Bridge; his body was found in the Hudson River the following week.  His roommate, Dharun Ravi, was charged...
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Can Badging Be the Zipcar of Testing and Assessment?
By Cathy Davidson 02/21/2012 - 3:10pm Comments
I’m excited that next week the judges will be listening to the “pitches” and then determining the winners of the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition.  Immediately after, will be the opening of what promises to be the best Digital...
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