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alisonseaman

Friending cats and following eggs: On social networks you ARE your photo - 3 views

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    The photo you choose to represent you says a great deal about who you are as an individual.
Angela Vierling-Claassen

Was It Rational to Watch the Oscars? from The New Yorker - 0 views

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    "Rational ritual" and shared knowledge in the age of online social networks. Public ritual is about transmission of meaning and the co-creation of a common knowledge. Does common knowledge = literacy?
Brendan Murphy

Connected Learning Principles | Connected Learning - 4 views

  • Fortunately, we are also able to harness the same technologies and social processes that have powered these transformations in order to provide the next generation with learning experiences that open doors to academic achievement, economic opportunity, and civic engagement.
  • we now have the capability to reimagine where, when, and how learning takes place
  • Connected learning is not, however, distinguished by a particular technology or platform, but is inspired by an initial set of three educational values, three learning principles, and three design principles.
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  • Shared purpose
  • Production-centered
  • Openly networked
  • The principles of connected learning weren’t born in the digital age, but they are extraordinarily well-suited to it.
Brendan Murphy

Monitoring your kids on Facebook? That's so 2009. - 3 views

  • much cooler after-party.
  • What sex education used to be — it's now the 'technology talk'
  • But as with anything online, each of these apps comes with serious caveats.
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  • Anyone receiving a text or photo can use their 10 seconds to capture a "screenshot,
  • "It's not anything that every parent and grandparent hasn't already seen," Harkness said. The problem, he adds, is the actions "get documented, replayed and sent around," and kids "forget how fast it moves and how far it goes."
  • some of the new social networking sites have become ripe targets for spreading malware and propagating scams.
  • Also worth noting is that almost every mobile app available collects some kind of personal data, such as a person's birthdate or the location of their phone, and shares that information with third parties for marketing purposes
  • Several consumer advocates actually recommend exposing their kids to social media sites earlier than age 12, when they're more receptive to hearing lessons about online etiquette and safety.
  • Levey links her kids' devices to her iTunes account so she's aware of any program they download.
  • Federal Trade Commission's guide to talking to kids about being online: http://1.usa.gov/PWkwfp
kirstentschofen

What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • knowing looks less like capturing truths in books than engaging in never-settled networks of discussion and argument. That social activity -- collaborative and contentious, often at the same time -- is a more accurate reflection of our condition as imperfect social creatures trying to understand a world that is too big and too complex for even the biggest-headed expert
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