Interesting arguments for and against teen involvement in new media online.

The Myths Of Growing Up Online Alarmist and polarized rhetoric is distorting important new findings about the risks and benefits of children's use of the Internet.

Blog supported by the MacArthur Foundation and recommended by Henry Jenkins. Very cool, resource rich place frequente3d by MIT new media guru!

If you have patience with navigating this site you will be able to link to examples that will clarify for use the uses of the new media in participatory culture that make it relevant for learning.

The best resource I have found re the new media and their applications to learning and teaching. This is a goldmine with links galore to current examples in use globally K - 12. This is the web version of the Horizon Report pdf.

The pdf version.

This is so cutting edge - people at IBM met in a virtual world for a major conference instead of everyone flying in and staying at hotels for 3 days. This is pretty short; just skip over anything you don't care about and find out about about the world they created for their attendees.

Susan Waterworth's List: Research Tools

So what do you think? Can you see this being a helpful tool?

Ms. W

Online gaming with learning goals. Everyone should pick at least one of these links to a game and check it out.

Google Docs

Abstract / Not all Facebook users appreciated the September 2006 launch of the 'News Feeds' feature. Concerned about privacy implications, thousands of users vocalized their discontent through the site itself, forcing the company to implement privacy tools. This essay examines the privacy concerns voiced following these events. Because the data made easily visible were already accessible with effort, what disturbed people was primarily the sense of exposure and invasion. In essence, the 'privacy trainwreck' that people experienced was the cost of social convergence. Key Words / convergence / exposure / Facebook / invasion / privacy / social network sites

Digital youth advocate and amazing scholar. All her stuff is interesting to read, and there's plenty of it, all linked to from here.

Presentation with data re amount of participatory culture we are engaged in.

Use in PBL presentations

Excellent for this project. Short, with lots of ideas.

This shows you how the old-fashioned taxonomy of learning can be adapted for today's learners by using all sorts of digital and participatory technology. Very relevant to our project.

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User friendly and thorough. Use this one, students!

You only need to look at my highlighted bits and comments.

Students in schools around the world find that their research, creativity and learning potential is seriously curbed by filtering and lack of use of their own mobile and gaming devices in schools.

This mix of fantastic possibilities and social educational opportunities has virtual worlds poised to transform basic approaches to learning and communication, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship. In an increasingly technologically linked yet socially fragmented world,4 virtual worlds demonstrate the power to bring people together.5

This one will definitely be helpful for your project.