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"The term 'digital divide' has long been used to describe the gap between those with access to communications technology and those without-applying to both home computer ownership as well as the delivery of home broadband access, which is still an issue. More recently, the term has referred to the gap in the type of engagement with the digital world. It has come to mean the divide between those who use technology to learn and create and those who use it more for entertainment or staying up to date on social networking sites. It might easily be summed up as the gap between creators and consumers."

From the site: "This is a rough DRAFT of a doctoral course I will be offering in Spring 2013 in our new Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge. All the work in that course will have a public component... Since many Ph.D. students today will be teaching in classrooms with hundreds of students and with some hybrid online component, one focus of this course is how to see those situations as opportunities for collective learning, rather than simply "mills" for replicating tired, outmoded Industrial-age ideas."

Aired on PBS in 2011. Highlights innovations in teaching and learning related to Digital Literacies. Also introduces you to some of the key researchers in digital culture and literacy: Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, James Gee, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen