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Youth culture and practice in relationship to the new media - how youth culture and practice is changing in the United States..

By Lisa Delpit, published by W.W. Norton, 1995. The book examines issue of race in schools and cultural clashes in the classroom.

By Alisha Azevedo in the Wired Campus section of The Chronicle of Higher Education November 16 2012. This article describes a class (on cellphone culture) where the discussion was conducted entirely over Twitter.

By Cody Hodge on the website Helium, December 4 2009. A brief exploration of the various reasons that (21st century) people might get tattoos.

TO'C uses this to further develop her heart scars project.

By Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, University of Chicago Press, 2011. The authors argue that students learn very little as undergraduates at most colleges and that, often, "an institutional culture...puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list."

JN uses a summary of this book and it's follow-up study with her students, to help them to think critically and to understand that learning is supposed to be hard and to manage their expectations about good grades.

Brains are being rewired from focused attention to flashing from one thing to another because of the digital devices now ubiquitous in the culture. This article asks what it means for learning and education.

As described on the Google website.

By Jennifer Gonzalez in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9 2011. Article announces the findings of a just-published early report, "Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges," looking at five years of progress of the Achieving the Dream program in the 26 schools that joined in 2004. While the article cites that the changes are slow and small, there are bright spots, including the spread of a "culture of evidence" with more sophisticated data collection and analysis.

By Tasha Eichenseher in Mo'orea for National Geographic News, Feb 18 2011. This is a special report on biodiversity and indigenous knowledge.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.

By Roger T. and David W. Johnson, published in In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture. Originally published in in Transforming Education (IC#18)\nWinter 1988, Page 34. The article discusses the social and cooperative aspects of learning.

by Kenneth Chang in Science section, New York Times, June 27, 2011. A math museum will be opening in Manhattan next year. The exhibits will include interactive props that illustrate abstract concepts. Under the vision of the founder, Glen Whitney, "MoMath will be one small way to bolster mathematics education in the United States. The museum's mission, according the Mr. Whitney, is to shape cultural attitudes and dispel the bad rap that most people give math.