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Digital 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, EquityRecommended Reading, Viewing, Clicking (Part 1)
Editor's note: Global Kids does a great job searching, sorting, and filtering the 24/7 flow of resources in the digital media and learning field. We've asked them to sift through their current...
Category: Digital CitizenshipProbing What’s Next in Learning and Technology, Pt 2
Children in Nigeria use laptops from the One Laptop Per Child movement. In the second part of my interview with Keene Haywood, Director of Research at the New Media Consortium, publisher of...
Category: EdtechSearching for What’s Next in Learning and Digital Media
A young girl in rural South America uses a laptop from the One Laptop Per Child movement. The New Media Consortium (NMC) is publisher of the annual Horizon Report, which "seeks to...
Category: EdtechIt’s the Learning, Not the Technology – Jessica K. Parker
Without a doubt, your 15-year-old daughter can text one-handed while holding her phone under her desk. Your 11-year-old brother leads his own World of Warcraft guild. Your fellow college students are Googling...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThis 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, EquityA few weeks ago, just before the 2010 THATCAMP, a well-known technology and humanities “unconference,” got underway at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the center’s director,...
Category: Digital LearningRethinking the Human Subjects Process
Get a group of social scientists together to talk about prospective research and it won't take long before the conversation turns to the question of human subjects board approval. Most researchers have...
Category: Research
