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"Abstract:      This research brief is a contribution by the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Center to its Student Privacy Initiative, which seeks to explore the opportunities and challenges that may arise as educational institutions adopt cloud computing technologies. In order to understand the implications of cloud services for student privacy more holistically, it might be helpful to examine how technology that is already implemented in academic contexts is used by youth and to explore how students feel about current practices. Towards this goal and informed by our recent research, the brief aims to make visible the youth perspective regarding the use of digital technology in the academic context, with focus on privacy-relevant youth practices, limitations on access to information, and youth's relation to educators in a high-tech environment. The brief includes insights and quotes gathered through a series of in-person focus groups as well as data from a questionnaire administered to all focus group participants. In addition, it highlights in a few instances additional research and data."

Recorded webinar briefing on getting broadband access to low-income families. Keith Krueger, Karen Cator, Bret Perkins, Kelley Dunne

12/2010: "The key objective of this policy brief is to sum up the ways in which mobile-supported learning can contribute to the global commitment to provide quality education for children, youth and adults, as expressed in the goals of Education For All (EFA). Consequently, the brief is particularly concerned with issues of equitable access to education, quality of learning resources, literacy, numeracy, essential life skills and lifelong learning. Opportunities for girls and women are highlighted. Suggestions and recommendations are made regarding strategies for the introduction and sustainability of mobile learning." Author: Agnes Kukulska-Hulme