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One of my favorite conferences is in SF this year, March 1-3. I'll most likely attend Friday and Saturday. You might consider going for one or two days to get a feel for current trends in digital learning and literacy. From the site: "The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine."

Registration closes Feb 3, $50 for students

From the site: "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically."

This post is full of links based around the ideas of learning gamification. You'll see some familiar names as well. :)

Okay, so I went to post this, and then saw that Karissa beat me to it... ;-)

awesome "gaming" learning, in the "real world" and the kid is too cute! :)

Article is geared to language teachers, but ideas are interesting for all :)

From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

Update to Wesch's original video "A Vision of Students Today." Made up of student produced films about what it means to be "a student today."

focused on rethinking education. Features researchers such as James Gee, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen

Cathy Davidson's course posted on HASTAC

Not really relevant to teaching comp, but pretty relevant to this crazy modern life I think

Very cool classroom design modeled on apple stores and coffee shops