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This article is about a veteran teacher who has taught in schools for 32 years all over Manhattan. He introduces a class in technology and game design. SARA CORBETT talkes about how students would benifit if teachers stepped away from what they thought was a typical classroom and focused on different approaches to reach and educate children. According to Sara Corbett, "Quest to Learn is organized specifically around the idea that digital games are central to the lives of today's children and also increasingly, as their speed and capability grow, powerful tools for intellectual exploration".

This is a very interesting and informative article. I was interested in how texting can affect a students literacy level and this piece answered all my questions. Research has been done to prove that texting does not negate students' literacy levels. Professors all over the world accept the new form of communication and are willing to use it in the classroom

In the video, "Evolving Technology", created by cre8tivem, on January 07, 2009, he brings up many facts about technology that many have never even thought of. It questions your knowledge and makes you wonder about things that you didn't even know were issues or existed. It makes you realize just how fast we are evolving. (It's a good video to get you brainstorming and think about different issues you would like to do a research and has many interesting facts that are useful.)

In Yasmin Kafai's article Playing and Making Games for Learning, Kafai claims that if one individual were to write a history on the development of child education, they would be forced to include the impact video games have made on child learning. Kafai writes that teachers have picked up on the fact that video games capture children's attention and have tried to use this to their advantage by incorporating video games into their teaching style. There are many ways to incorporate video games into the classroom, but Kafai generalizes that there are two main categories of thought when it comes to teachers integrating video games into the curriculum: instructionalists and constructionalists.

The article I choose to read is very similar to Gee's Book we have been reading. It begins by talking about a teacher in New York, who is teaching a 6th grade class. But, this is no ordinary class, he is teaching these students through video games. These kids not only have the opportunity to watch video games and plot the characters movements, but they also have the chance to create games themselves. I then goes on to talk about what it would be like if the way we educated kids completely changed.

In "The New Writing Pedagogy" the authors, Angela Pascopella and Will Richardson, discuss how technology and the Web are creating a new emphasis on student's writing process. This is creating teachers to no longer fear upcoming technology, but embrace them within the classroom. Due to this teachers are using "Web-based social networking tools like blogs and wikis, YouTube and Facebook as digital spaces, multimedia texts, global audiences and linked conversations among passionate readers." Furthermore, "The New Writing Pedagogy" has many comments and quotes from professors and teachers of all levels that comment on how they are adapting to "this new pedagogy" and how we are the creators of it.

In the article Maine's Laptop Initiative Improves Student Writing written by Anne Miller tells of a program that started in Maine's middle schools, every teacher and student had constant access to a laptop that was provided by the school. While also providing programs for the teachers to help them with using laptops in this new way, hoping to improve their students writing skills while also moving into the 21st century.

ImprovEverywhere is a group who conduct a lot of flash mobs all over the US. In this particular video that is on youtube.com. They gathered 207 people in New York's Grand Central Station to do a huge flash mob. They choose and exact second in which they would all stop randomly in whatever position they were in and would stay there till the specified time. They were just randomly everywhere and doing normal everyday things, but all did like they agreed to and stopped. People were just so surprised. They didn't understand what was happening and why all these people just stopped. Some people were convinced they were protesting something or trying to get across a message.

Best Buy's CEO loves twitter & facebook & its not just clutter.

Awesome flash mob dancers in pretty golden pantaloons.-- 'U Can't Touch This' M.C. Hammer.

Heather Knight, an doctoral on researching about robotics. She combined technology with entertainment to create a robot that is a comedian.

Gaming addiction information

I found this article by Katie Ellis and it argues how Facebook is an extension of who we are and our personalities.

I found this by Christi-Anne Castro it talks about how the JOURNEY BAND found their new leading singer through YOUTUBE.

This article is about games and how a lot of global population is playing video games or computer games. Through digital media, it is helping put the games other there for people to see and get. The author believes that by playing video games, it helps improves decision making skills, hones hand-eye coordination, and may improve the success rates of professionals such as surgeons.

This review focuses on children's use of communication technology and talks about the possible benefits and drawbacks of its use. How children's learning of language and literacy skills are changing means of communication.

In this article they have studies found that individuals tended to engage in role-play games and anit normative behaviors in the online world. They have studies that have examined identity performance in less anonymous online settings such as internet dating sites and reported different findings. The newest study investigates identity construction on facebook.

In this short video a group of children ranging from kindergartners to 12th grade students they share there thoughts about how teaching should be changed. They feel it is necessary to make a change to the way teachers teach in the schools. Technology is advancing rapidly and what they learn in class today is not going to be useful information for them in the future.

Clay Shirky NYU professor, expert on social media, discusses the benefits of social media engagement through: online communities, blogs, networks, and groups etc. He encourages people to participate in online interactions and communities in the sense that people who share common interests can interact online to form new ideas to better their specific interest and culture.

In this video, William Li talks about how we can lower our risk of cancer by eating local food. Food such as tomatoes, soy bean, cherry, etc. He also talks about the causes of cancer.