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Becoming a Master in Knowledge and Networks
Last December, deans from the Graduate School and the College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University came to me and asked if I and the team at the Humanities, Arts, Sciences,...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeBrazilian 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 CitizenshipBio-Politics, Video Games, and Kids’ Bodies
Some recent research findings have got me thinking a lot about Franz Kafka’s story about a young clerical worker who wakes up half-transformed into a giant insect. No, it’s not research from...
Category: ResearchYouMedia: A New Vision for Learning
In July 2009, YouMedia launched as an ambitious attempt to re-imagine the library as a more relevant learning resource for today’s teens. Understanding that the landscape has changed how teens learn, socialize...
Category: Educational PracticeParticipation, Technology, and the Power of Sharing
This year’s convention of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) attracted more than 20,000 programmers, artists, researchers, filmmakers, and gaming professionals - as well...
Category: Digital LearningCall 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, 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 CitizenshipIf Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault
There has been growing concern that computers have failed to live up to the promise of improving learning for school kids. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PBS have all...
Category: Critical PerspectivesStudents: 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 CitizenshipEducation: Time to experiment, learn, share, mobilize
At HASTAC, we’ve been very excited this month to be one of the “community partners” for the upcoming Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: Learning, Freedom and the Open Web taking place in Barcelona, Nov. 3-5....
Category: Educational PracticeVeiled 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
