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4/19/12
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Kelsey Herron
Wikipedia Works to Improve Its Academic Image
Is Wikipedia a credible academic source? The Wikipedia Education Program aims to improve the tool’s reputation among professors and students. But some educators don’t need any convincing.2/25/11
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
PLAYBACK: Ask Not What Digital Media Can do for Kids, but What Kids Can Create With Digital Media
James Paul Gee on the brain, video games and learning; preview of the 2011 Digital Media and Learning Conference; research on gaming and urban black youth; Doug Rushkoff on understanding Google; sharing your iPad with your 6-year-old; and Global Kids takes on gaming and global issues.1/25/11
Filed by
Christine Cupaiuolo
Teaching Digital & Media Literacy Requires Teaching Skepticism
For MediaShift’s Craig Silverman and history teacher Kevin Levin, the brave new digital world is only as good as our ability to navigate it.8/05/10
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
Information Seeking Online: Helping Students Understand Authorship and Credibility
As part of a series on cheating in education and the efforts to stop it, The New York Times recently looked at plagiarism on college campuses and how students in the digital age understand concepts of intellectual property, copyright and authorship.6/07/10
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
Kids and Credibility
How well are kids navigating the ocean of information available online? A new report from MIT Press examines how children obtain information and beliefs about its credibility.4/27/10
Filed by
Christine Cupaiuolo
Website Credibility Determined by the Search Route
New research on how young adults evaluate web content concludes that how students get to a website is a key factor in determining how much credibility they assign to the site.12/17/09
Teaching New Media Literacy Can Help Youth Stay Safe Online
Spotlight talks to Anne Collier of NetFamilyNews about the myths and realities of online safety.12/17/09
Study on Youth and Information Credibility
Select findings from a new study by Andrew J. Flanagin, professor in the department of communication, and Miriam Metzger, associate professor in the department of communication, University of California, Santa Barbara.12/17/09
By Barbara Ray
Creating Skeptics: Helping Students to Judge the Credibility of Online Content
Tips from “Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility,” edited by Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger, a volume in the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning.12/17/09
By Josh Karp
Kids Are Getting Better at Judging Online Content ... in Theory
Young people have a healthy degree of skepticism about the credibility of information they find on the internet, but they may need help applying it.11/16/09
By Barbara Ray
Babies with Superpowers—Ethics and the New Digital Media
The ethical promises and perils that online worlds create for youth—a summary of a new MacArthur Series report by Carrie James and Howard Gardner.2/23/09
Filed by
Connie Yowell
Recent Links in Digital Media & Learning
As is our custom, we’ve gathered a few links in digital media and learning from around the web that might be of interest to our readers. They include a forum and article on simulation games, book reviews and more.2/13/09
Filed by
Michael Levine
Michael H. Levine and Carly Shuler: Pockets of Potential
Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Street Workshop detail the recommendations in their latest study that explores the potential of mobile devices for learning.1/30/09
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Anne Balsamo
Anne Balsamo: Videos and Frameworks for “Tinkering” in a Digital Age
A professor at USC shares video from a recent meeting that brought together artists, educators, researchers, and technology experts to discuss “tinkering” for learning in the digital age.1/22/09
Filed by
Marsha L. Semmel
