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Connected They Write: The Lure of Writing on the Web
The massive adoption of digital media in the everyday life of teens has reshaped social and educational practices in Latin America. A digital divide persists but youth are increasingly more connected. In...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityMozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning
What if the same energy, ideals, organizational effectiveness, global army of volunteers and code wizardry that created the Firefox web browser could be applied to learning and education? Don't forget that the...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityNew 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, EquitySocial Justice and Diverse Cultures of Participation
Many educators are excited by the new opportunities and challenges for learning that digital media brings us. Stories about 11-year-old Kai, a learner at Quest to Learn school in New York, paint...
Category: EquityRecommended Reading, Viewing, Clicking (Part 3)
Editor's note: Global Kids does a stellar job each month pointing us to key resources. We are not Waiting for Superman, We are Empowering Superheroes (Presentation) Social entrepreneur and learning researcher Diana...
Categories: Edtech, EquityCall for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2011
Professor Katie Salen is Chair of the Digital Media & Learning Conference 2011. Her work at the innovative Quest to Learn school in New York City has been featured most recently in...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityDigital 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, EquityVeiled 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, EquityThis month I had the pleasure to spend time in Sweden, hosted by Patrik Svensson, Director of the HUMlab at Umea University in northern Sweden, and then with Göran Blomqvist, CEO of...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityPrivacy and social media sites: a growing, global concern
Raquel Recuero, a Brazilian professor, is an Internet culture researcher in South America.Wherever social networking sites have reached the mainstream, privacy seems to have become a more common worry for users. Brazilians,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityReinterpreting the Digital Divide
digital divide: the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all.The digital divide is understood to be the gap...
Category: EquityGetting into College? There’s a Game for That.
While One Laptop per Child and other programs to address the digital divide are important, I have come to believe it is counterproductive to couple discussions of the transformative potential of digital...
Categories: Edtech, EquityThe Rhetoric of MySpace vs. Facebook
From Eszter Hargittai's scholarship to more recent work by marketing analytics firms, we know that race and socio-economic status shape MySpace and Facebook usage. Yet, it is the rhetoric used by participants that...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity
