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Includes a full chapter on critical thinking and information evaluation, including taking into account cultural sensitivites: "Critical thinking and lifelong learning - The role of critical thinking and lifelong learning - Critical thinking skills and cultural sensitivities - Lifelong learning and learning styles - Concluding comments"

Some interesting information about remix culture as a language used by young people in entertainment

Thanks for sharing! This is very helpful for a project (short vid) I will be making!

"global virtual culture-historical encyclopaedia www.nekropole.info/en in which any person could record their memories about their ancestors, family members and other close and important people." At present, on more than 14.0 million pages the website holds data on more than 3.85 million persons. More than 131,000 sites of burial grounds have been added and marked on the maps. The website continues to grow and is constantly technically improved. Today, the information can be recorded in 8 languages: English, Russian, German, French, Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Hebrew.

This essay takes a look at comic book scanners and why they do what they do -- namely, risking legal repercussions for the violation of IP laws without monetary reward. It's an interesting look at the participatory culture aspect of fandoms in the digital age.

Chirospasm22 thank you for posting, I had never heard of comic book piracy until now!

Participatory culture is the way to go for young people in the 21st century.

"If you were only reading the popular press you would think that higher education is experiencing a sea change."

Game Studies meets Surveillance Studies at the Edge of Digital Culture: An Introduction to a special issue on Surveillance, Games and Play

Former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture

Private space: Author Cory Doctorow in his study. Here's a story you've heard about the Internet: we trade our privacy for services. The idea is that your private information is less valuable to you than it is to the firms that siphon it out of your browser as you navigate the Web.

Hi I'm Christina Chavez-Reyes. The account listed is a work account. I found this piece insightful about the trade-offs to privacy for using internet services. The author frames the issue as a "war" between "the rebels and the empire" to maximize the value of our privacy. We are often led to believe consumers (the rebels) are powerless against internet corporations (the empire); however, the author suggests a solution to empower consumers that is embedded in the very open source culture which created the issue. It demonstrates the potent innovation that open source culture possesses over other models of production that are explained in course videos.

open-glam is a discussion list of the Open Knowledge Forum for those interested inbopen data and open content in the cultural heritage field.

White Paper recommended by Dr. Alec Couros

This is a gread read! I`m not sure if it`s been shared before now, so apologies in advance if it has.

I think the most interesting part of the report is from page 82 on. Is more related to connected or collaborative learning and gives concrete examples with tools used on different projects.

I think Ecuador might be leading the world in terms of participatory culture - see this page from my blog. Oh, Sao Paulo also adopted the participatory culture for the local council decision making so voters can vote per issue - very cool.

"To what extent is it possible - or desirable - to disengage from the growing cultural database? How do surveillance and "sousveillance" play a role in the policing of individuals by institutions, and vice versa? Can we disentangle the issues surrounding localized record keeping from globalized control over the archives? In this article, we discuss a range of cultural practices, epistemological regimes and intellectual discourses that have emerged to cope with these questions, and we assess the strategic options for communitarian and individual agency in an era we describe as "the end of forgetting."* I included this link as the article has an excellent model to describe the different strategic responses of agency to the openness of data and the resultant privacy issues.