Robots are always in the news, it seems. Whether they are serving as caregivers for the elderly or helping solve the Japanese nuclear crisis, robots are becoming an increasingly important part of...
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School, Work and Play: Decoding Digital Age Shifts
Learning with digital media is often articulated through an affective vocabulary of play, informality, enjoyment, and creativity, as opposed to the formality, standards and routines of conventional schooling. This difference in the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipEinstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age
When I started using digital media in my classroom, I began my search for mentors by inspecting Will Richardson's social bookmarking networks on Diigo, then followed on Twitter some of the people...
Category: Digital CitizenshipCyberbullying: An International Perspective
A viral video of an Australian boy retaliating against a bully at school has sharply ratcheted up offline and online discussions of cyberbullying. On websites in numerous countries, young and old alike...
Category: Digital CitizenshipHumans, Technology and the Digital Future
At the top of the must-read list this month is "How the Internet Gets Inside Us," an article by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnick who offers an insightful overview of the range...
Category: Digital CitizenshipIs the Virtual World Good for the ‘Real’ One?
In a cartoon depicting the evolution of Good Samaritanism in the digital age, a man walks by a homeless person lying on the street and does nothing. In the next frame, he...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, ResearchIdentity, Avatars, Virtual Life – and Advancing Social Equity in the ‘Real’ World
This semester, MIT professor Fox Harrell is teaching an ambitious new course on “Identity Representation” that includes studying identities adopted in computer games and social network sites. In the course description posted...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityUnderstanding the Rise of Social Networking in Brazil
Orkut was the first major social networking service to arrive in Brazil and it has just passed the seven-year mark. Although several other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are growing...
Category: Digital CitizenshipOn Parenting, Media, Education and Phobias
Modern cinema can teach us how youth and media are widely understood in our cultures. Cinema, like works of literature and visual art, can represent and diagnose our widespread fears and fantasies...
Category: Digital CitizenshipIn literate societies, the idea of teaching someone how to read but not how to write is practically inconceivable. The dual connection between reading and writing is built into the very notion...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSocial Learning, Literacies and Recommended Resources
Paleontologist from American Museum of Natural History shows I Dig Brazil kids images of ancient animals.Editor's note: Global Kids does a great job each month pointing us to excellent new resources.Digital and...
Category: Digital CitizenshipUK Student Protests: Democratic Participation, Digital Age
The stereotypical characterization of young people as politically apathetic, interested only in using digital media for socializing and gaming, has been punctured by recent events in the UK. University and high school...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipTop 5 Blog Posts on Digital Media and Learning for 2010
The DML Central blog is just over a year old, and the close of 2010 marks our first full year of publishing thought leadership from our featured bloggers and highlighting best practices...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningThe Joy of Writing – With Ancient Tools or New
The Telegraph recently published an article announcing that, in the age of Facebook and Twitter, "ancient communication technologies" like handwriting "are current like never before." The title of the article -- "How Twitter...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Self-Harm and Other Acts of Self-Harassment
Sometimes, things aren't what they appear to be. And, in those cases, jumping to the wrong conclusion can be a disservice to everyone. After I first wrote about Formspring seven months ago,...
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