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Ignore the Potential of Mobile Learning, Risk Widening the Digital Divide - 2 views

July 22, 2011 | 11:48 AM | By Tina Barseghian DIGITAL DIVIDE FILED UNDER: Learning Methods, digital media, digital-divide, mobile-learning http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/07/ignore-the-...

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started by Bonnie Sutton on 23 Jul 11 no follow-up yet

SOPA & citizenship in a digital age - 1 views

Kid-Tech News for Parents http://www.netfamilynews.org/?p=31155> You could call Internet users "citizen lobbyists." This week, in a post-Arab Spring sign of how participatory media - and its p...

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For At-Risk Youth, is Learning Digital Media a Luxury? - 1 views

July 22, 2011 | 2:20 PM | By Tina Barseghian DIGITAL DIVIDE For At-Risk Youth, is Learning Digital Media a Luxury? FILED UNDER: Culture, Learning Methods, Research, Tech Tools, digital media, mobi...

Culture Learning Methods Research Tech Tools digital media mobile-learning

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Save Our Schools Conference and Clippings - 0 views

A few clippings. The Save Our Schools March http://www.washingtonpost.com/local By Valerie Strauss "I don't know where I would be today if my teachers' job security was based on how I performed o...

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Phone Hacking, Regulation of Social Networking Services - 1 views

What the Hacking Scandal Means for Regulation of Social Networking Services http://www.cdt.org/blogs/287what-hacking-scandal-means-regulation-social-networking-services ret by Omer Tene July 28, ...

Regulations for Social networking Hacking scandal Rupert Murdoch Myspace

started by Bonnie Sutton on 09 Aug 11 no follow-up yet

Guest post: An 'Arab Spring' of free online higher education By Daniel de Vise - 2 views

Guest post: An 'Arab Spring' of free online higher education By Daniel de Vise http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/guest-post-an-arab-spring-of-free-online-higher-education/201...

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started by Bonnie Sutton on 03 Feb 12 no follow-up yet

The Youth Culture of Fear - 1 views

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/marketplacek12/2012/03/live_from_sxsw_social_media_and_the_youth_culture_of_fear.html Cyberbullying's recent emergence in the public conversation has given way to...

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Facebook - 1 views

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/04/18/should-teachers-and-students-be-facebook-friends/ Should teachers and students be Facebook friends? Several years after Facebook expanded from a college social...

Faceboook teachers ideas of connectedness social media

started by Bonnie Sutton on 20 Apr 12 no follow-up yet

Report: Social networking sites and our lives Pew Charitable Trust - 2 views

Report: Social networking sites and our lives Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do thes...

Report on social media networks support community engagement.

started by Bonnie Sutton on 16 Jun 11 no follow-up yet

he Promise and Limitations of New Technologies in Spreading Democracy - 1 views

http://newamerica.net/events/2011/ignite_or_quash_revolution The Promise and Limitations of New Technologies in Spreading Democracy Do the Internet and social media empower Big Brother or indivi...

media promises and limitations of social level playing fields New American Foundation Arab spring

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New coalition seeks to protect future of broadcasting - 1 views

New coalition seeks to protect future of broadcasting By Gautham Nagesh A diverse coalition of businesses and public interest organizations will launch Tuesday with an aim of safeguarding the futu...

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ISTE REPORT - 4 views

Web News Briefs 1. My ISTE 2011: Takeaways from a conference To me, ISTE - with some 13,000 attendees from 68 countries having converged on Philadelphia this week - is like looking out the window...

Anne Collier NetFamily News on ISTE horizon report

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Student Bill of Rights - 1 views

http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_brad_flickinger/educational_technology_bill_rights_students Educational Technology Bill of Rights for Students by Brad Flickinger ShareThis The followin...

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Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks - 2 views

Building Schools Out of Clicks, Not Bricks By D.D. GUTTENPLAN Published: April 22, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/world/europe/building-schools-out-of-clicks-not-bricks.htm...

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Teaching in "Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation" - 6 views

URLs: quoted article: http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/159157.html originally published in http://npe.educationnews.org/Review/Essays/v7n7.htm (with appendices containing many further links)

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started by Bonnie Sutton on 01 Aug 11 1 follow-up, last by Claude Almansi on 01 Aug 11

The Great Tech War - 1 views

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook?partner=homepage_newsletter ilbert Wong, the mayor of Cupertino, California, calls his city council to order. "...

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The Hill Technology IssueWatch Newsletter‏ - 1 views

Supreme Court to weigh warrantless GPS tracking By Gautham Nagesh and Brendan Sasso The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case to determine whether police need a warrant to trac...

the Hill patient data electronic medical records. gps

started by Bonnie Sutton on 04 Nov 11 no follow-up yet

Suspicious Behavior - 1 views

SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR 08/04/2011 Can teachers be trusted to use social media appropriately? According to a new Missouri law, apparently not. Missouri Senate Bill 54 specifies that, "No teache...

Social Networking Missouri facebook page

started by Bonnie Sutton on 04 Aug 11 no follow-up yet

Get With the Computer Program - 2 views

evaluation of computer use in university effectiveness tools Ftf vs online and other methodologies

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Playing with Reality at the Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum - ProfHacker - T... - 0 views

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June 21, 2011, 8:00 am By Prof. Hacker Lewis Carroll's logic game[This is a guest post by Anastasia Salter, Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore in the school of Information Arts and Technologies. Her academic work focuses on storytelling in new media; she also writes the Future Fragments column for CinCity. Follow her on Twitter at AnaSalter.--@jbj] "...With that said, perhaps the most important takeaway from LEEF is that it's not all about expensive toys. Learning games don't have to be hi-tech to be effective. There's a lot to be learned from Space Vikings, the conference's ARG-that's alternate reality game, not its augmented reality cousin. Unlike augmented reality, which requires technology to mediate an environment, alternate reality is a playful imposition of story onto a physical space. In Space Vikings, a number of us dedicated conference attendees were drawn into a mission to save our tribes from a "pedagogical wasteland." How did we accomplish this feat? By hunting down "anomalies"-read masking tape clues, QR codes and posters-with answers to questions to submit in a digital educational games theory scavenger hunt. This is just one example of a conference ARG, and designers were at LEEF to report on lessons learned from others like DevLearn's Zombie Apocalypse. (For more ideas on educational uses of Alternate Reality, check out Think Transmedia.) These same ideas can scale and transform to a number of settings. For example, Melissa Peterson's Elmwood Park Zoo ARG is currently a project conducted with paper (though imagined for smartphones), and it's already doubling the engagement time of visitors to the local zoo. And on the other side, games like the Giskin Anomaly in Balboa Park are adding new layers of narrative to a popular and culturally rich tourist destination. And these games don't have to be location dependent. Case studies like the Radford Outdoor ARG Outbreak, a social inquiry game that puts st

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">June 21, 2011, 8:00 am By Prof. Hacker Lewis Carroll's logic game[This is a guest post by Anastasia Salter, Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore in the school of Information Arts and Technologies. Her academic work focuses on storytelling in new media; she also writes the Future Fragments column for CinCity. Follow her on Twitter at AnaSalter.--@jbj] "...With that said, perhaps the most important takeaway from LEEF is that it's not all about expensive toys. Learning games don't have to be hi-tech to be effective. There's a lot to be learned from Space Vikings, the conference's ARG-that's alternate reality game, not its augmented reality cousin. Unlike augmented reality, which requires technology to mediate an environment, alternate reality is a playful imposition of story onto a physical space. In Space Vikings, a number of us dedicated conference attendees were drawn into a mission to save our tribes from a "pedagogical wasteland." How did we accomplish this feat? By hunting down "anomalies"-read masking tape clues, QR codes and posters-with answers to questions to submit in a digital educational games theory scavenger hunt. This is just one example of a conference ARG, and designers were at LEEF to report on lessons learned from others like DevLearn's Zombie Apocalypse. (For more ideas on educational uses of Alternate Reality, check out Think Transmedia.) These same ideas can scale and transform to a number of settings. For example, Melissa Peterson's Elmwood Park Zoo ARG is currently a project conducted with paper (though imagined for smartphones), and it's already doubling the engagement time of visitors to the local zoo. And on the other side, games like the Giskin Anomaly in Balboa Park are adding new layers of narrative to a popular and culturally rich tourist destination. And these games don't have to be location dependent. Case studies like the Radford Outdoor ARG Outbreak, a social inquiry game that puts st</div>

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