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It’s the Learning, Not the Technology – Jessica K. Parker
Without a doubt, your 15-year-old daughter can text one-handed while holding her phone under her desk. Your 11-year-old brother leads his own World of Warcraft guild. Your fellow college students are Googling...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThis month I had the pleasure to spend time in Sweden, hosted by Patrik Svensson, Director of the HUMlab at Umea University in northern Sweden, and then with Göran Blomqvist, CEO of...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityA few weeks ago, just before the 2010 THATCAMP, a well-known technology and humanities “unconference,” got underway at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the center’s director,...
Category: Digital LearningRethinking the Human Subjects Process
Get a group of social scientists together to talk about prospective research and it won't take long before the conversation turns to the question of human subjects board approval. Most researchers have...
Category: ResearchHow COPPA Fails Parents, Educators, Youth
Ever wonder why youth have to be over 13 to create an account on Facebook or Gmail or Skype? It has nothing to do with safety. In 1998, the U.S. Congress enacted...
Category: Digital CitizenshipA professor with unconventional methods, message
Digital media and learning initiatives often talk in utopian terms about a “future without books,” but don’t say that to New School faculty member Trebor Scholz. Scholz, who teaches in the Department...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticePrivacy and social media sites: a growing, global concern
Raquel Recuero, a Brazilian professor, is an Internet culture researcher in South America.Wherever social networking sites have reached the mainstream, privacy seems to have become a more common worry for users. Brazilians,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityIt’s an amazing time to be a learner – Will Richardson
Your personal learning network is not just a network of people you learn from. A "pln," as enthusiasts call them, is a network of people who are learning together. I was given...
Category: Digital Learning
