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The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy | The Paulo and N... - 0 views

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    The Freire Project is dedicated to building an international critical community which works to promote social justice in a variety of cultural contexts. We are committed to conducting and sharing critical research in social, political, and educational locations. READ MORE
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It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

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    The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking sites, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom.
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Why academia's war with the web is bad for critical pedagogy | The Paulo and Nita Freir... - 0 views

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    this aversion to the social web is coming at a great cost to those of us who are involved in a mission of social justice and critical pedagogy.
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I don't empower students. « An (aspiring) Educator's Blog - 0 views

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    Macedo put into words a feeling I have had for awhile. In terms of social justice, I am not responsible for the empowerment of my students. The very notion implies a flow of power that is not consistent with socioeconomic/political realities or social justice.
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Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon - 0 views

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    students in different social-class backgrounds are rewarded for classroom behaviors that correspond to personality traits allegedly rewarded in the different occupational strata--the working classes for docility and obedience, the managerial classes for initiative and personal assertiveness.
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(Social) Class Matters | Class and Other Identities - 0 views

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    How do you experience class differently because of your race, ethnic group, religion, gender, age, or other identity? What class dynamics do you notice within your identity groups?
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apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming? - 0 views

  • It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.
  • It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.
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    It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.
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[video] Danah Boyd on youth cultures in MyFriends, MySpace - 0 views

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    [NOTE: Skip lengthy intro of participants - talk begins at 7:15] danah boyd participated in the Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss her work and research in the area of social networks. She provided a great historical context to the various sites that have come and gone from the center of Internet activity, as well as some insight into what brought about their successes and failures.
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Professor Rheingold's PP alternatives | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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    Lots of other things to use for presenting these days beyond powerpoint. A good collection for students or teachers.
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Teaching for social justice (definition: wikipedia) - 0 views

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    Over the course of dozens of books, Freire proposed that educators focus on creating equity and changing systems of oppression within public schools and society
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A portrait of 21st-century poverty | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Today marks the 10th anniversary of Tony Blair's promise to eradicate child poverty by 2020, but about 30% of children remain beneath the breadline. Amelia Gentleman reports
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Guardian Open Platform: Tools to keep content king | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

  • "The model is free. You can use our ­content elsewhere in the web. What do we get out of it? We want you to help us build an ad network," said Matt McAlister, head of the Guardian Developer Network.
  • To find related Guardian articles, the API can draw on the tagging system from its own content management system, internal search engine for guardian.co.uk provided by Endeca and a related-content service powered by Zemanta. That content is then packaged in standardised formats including XML, JSON and Atom which can easily be added to external sites.
  • "The whole idea is to spread out journalism," ­McAlister said, and APIs can lead to explosive growth.
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  • Twitter's API drives 20 times more ­traffic to the service than its own website does, and Twitter's web market share passed that of social news site Digg in January. Third parties using Twitter's API have developed a huge range of services and applications that have helped drive Twitter's growth spurt.
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    The Guardian this week launched its Open Platform, paving the way for developers to easily reuse its articles and data
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[video] Ill Doctrine: How To Tell People They Sound Racist - 0 views

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    Race matters. Here's a little 101 about how to confront racism. Also known as "that thing you said is racist" versus "you are a racist" conversation.
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[paper/pdf] (under)mining privacy in social networks - 0 views

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    First, users should be explicitly aware\nof every event that gets fed into their activity stream.\nWhile that may not necessarily mean that every time such\nan event is generated the user receives a message, applications\nshould be explicit about which activities of the user\ngenerate events for their activity stream.
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(video) Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class - 0 views

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    "Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations"
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