Take a few minutes and help influence the next generation of games. The 2010 game design competition sponsored by HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning program is looking for...
Category: EdtechMonth: January 2010
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
With Facebook systematically dismantling its revered privacy infrastructure, I think it's important to drill down on the issue of privacy as it relates to teens. There's an assumption that teens don't care...
Category: Digital CitizenshipNow that the ebook industry has set its sights on the textbook and educational markets, it's especially important for educators to shape discussion of the benefits and potential impact of ereaders. Rather...
Category: Digital LearningEducating for the Future, Not the Past
Historian Robert Darnton has argued that we are currently in the fourth great Information Age in all human history. The first information revolution came with the development of writing in 4000 B.C....
Category: Educational PracticeAn Emerging Theory: Things Rule
The international conference on Digital Arts and Culture is often a place for previewing coming theoretical trends in digital scholarship. Long before the formation of separate conferences for the Electronic Literature Organization...
Category: Educational PracticeSocial Networks and Civic Mobilization in Latin America
Translation of the Tweet: "People with more than one thousand followers: RT (Retweet) is a good way to contribute with #projetoenchentes (flood relief in Brazil)." Access to the Internet as well as...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipGlobal Kids: Recommended Reading…Viewing…Listening
Global Kids' New York City-based programs address the urgent need for young people to possess leadership skills and an understanding of complex global issues to succeed in the 21st century workplace and...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning
