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Student-led Curriculum: Demanding, Digital, Compelling
At November’s University of California Institute for Research in the Arts conference, the emphasis was on college courses that couldn’t be planned out according to set syllabi and fixed course objectives, because...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeWhy Is Everyone Worried About Attention Now?
If you read the newspapers of the early twentieth century, you realize that everyone was fretting then about the “horseless carriage.” They were positive that the new technology of an automobile that...
Category: Digital CitizenshipNew Media Literacy: Critique vs Re-design
A central concern of media education has been to empower young people with the ability to question, analyze, critique and deconstruct messages they encounter in media. But in a global remix culture,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity“Bullying” Has Little Resonance with Teenagers
Ever had one of dem days you wish woulda stayed home / Run into a group of niggas who getting they hate on / You walk by they get wrong you reply...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityCommunity and Writing in an Age of New Collectives
In Larry Sanger's history of the development of Wikipedia in Open Sources 2.0, the Wikipedia co-founder writes: For months I denied that Wikipedia was a community, claiming that it was, instead, only...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningLiteracies, Semantic Web and Recommended Resources
Editor's note: Global Kids does a stellar job each month pointing us to excellent resources. The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition (report) The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition, part of the New...
Category: Digital CitizenshipShelly Terrell: Global Netweaver, Curator, PLN Builder
When I started using social media in the classroom, I looked for and began to learn from more experienced educators. First, I read and then tried to comment usefully on their blog...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningBrazilian Elections and Emerging Webcitizenship
Diego Casaes and Paula Goes from Global Voices Online have been instrumental in crowdsourcing efforts for the 2010 Brazilian elections.Oct. 3 was Election Day in Brazil. About 135 million Brazilians voted (in...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipPost-Platonic Writing on the Web
In the Phaedrus, Plato famously objected to writing, noting that it would cause a number of ills: it would lead to the decay of memory, it would deceive people into thinking that...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Media and the Changing Nature of Authorship
Students spend a lot of time writing. Most everyone vividly remembers writing essays for school, and, for many, those memories are not necessarily pleasant. Talk of writing in the classroom often dredges...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityRecommended Reading, Viewing, Clicking (Part 2)
Editor's note: Global Kids does a great job mining the 24/7 flow of resources coming out of the digital media and learning field. They share some of their favorites each month. Please...
Category: Digital CitizenshipTeens, Social Media, and Celebrity: Anatomy of an Incident
Recently, two Brazilian teenagers practicing sexting on Twitcam, became international news. More than 25,000 Twitter users watched the live transmission of the couple’s intimate moments. Copies of the video and screen shots...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSocial Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
Carmen and her mother are close. As far as Carmen's concerned, she has nothing to hide from her mother so she's happy to have her mom as her 'friend' on Facebook. Of...
Category: Digital CitizenshipStudents: Panic Over Online Privacy, Identity is Overblown
Blogger Chris Sinclair attends the University of California, Irvine, and brings a youth perspective to DMLcentral. Going on the Internet and reading blogs these days I feel like all I see are...
Category: Digital CitizenshipVeiled Censorship: Social Media and Education in Brazil
Internet access in Brazil has been growing. Data from IBOPE/Net Ratings from December 2009 showed that Brazil had 67.5 million Internet users, with 1.2 million new users just since September 2009. Accessing...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity
