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9/17/12
Are Class Differences in Parenting Creating a New Digital Divide?
Research shows social class has a big effect on parenting style. Does it influence how kids use digital media too? Heather Chaplin examines what the digital divide means in 2012.8/30/12
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Kelsey Herron
The Catch-22 of Digital Literacy
In educating tomorrow’s workforce, how do we make sure everyone has a chance to leap the digital literacy divide? The Atlantic examines how to demonstrate the value of digital literacy to those who aren’t digitally literate.7/09/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Can One Laptop (or One Kindle) Per Child Boost Literacy and Learning?
Five years into an ambitious technology experiment, education experts and government officials are debating whether the more than $200 million spent to distribute laptops to 800,000 school children in Peru has been worth the cost. Plus: Could e-readers be the next One Laptop Per Child?6/08/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Connecting the Digital Divide to Digital Literacies
While the gap between those who have/do not have access to digital spaces is important, the gap between those who engage media in constructive, literate ways and those who simply consume media for entertainment purposes has become an equally urgent issue. Plus, Howard Rheingold on the five digital literacies essential to engagement.5/06/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Making Media, Engaging in Democracy, and Working Toward the Future
“Great quotes” about learning and change; Pew survey on teens and videos; S. Craig Watkins on critical design literacy and pathways to youth participation; digital media literacy and civic engagement in Oakland schools—and how it all adds up to future work skills.4/29/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Hacking Education, MIT Students to the (STEM) Rescue, Teaching Media Literacy and More
This week’s Playback looks at issues of digital access and how education is being re-thought and re-taught in the United States and around the world.4/22/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Digital Divides and Bridges: Badges, Apps for the Wage Gap and Teaching Poetry Online
Pew Internet looks at differences in internet access and usage; high school provides cell phones for texting; flattening school walls in Oregon; massive online classes move from teaching code to inspiring poetry—and more in this week’s Playback.3/23/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Questioning Culture and Technology: Students’ Stories at DML Conference
At this year’s Digital Media and Learning Conference, attendees heard from a group of experts that rarely appear at such events: students.3/11/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: At Issue: Access to Technology and Social Media in Schools, From Pre-K to College
NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center release statement on technology and interactive media in early childhood programs; PBS is providing free apps to Head Start centers; students (and schools) demand more access to technology and the web, and YouTube, among others, responds; South by Southwest isn’t just for bands and techies anymore—the highlights from SXSWedu.3/07/12
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Sarah Jackson
Conversations with Education Visionaries, Technologists, and Students at the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference
Researchers mingled with makers, hive learners and digital artists at the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco last week.2/24/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: What Facebook Reveals and Conceals; Tyler Clementi and Digital Citizenship; Laptop Success and Fail Stories
Tyler Clementi, Dharun Ravi and digital citizenship; new articles from International Journal of Learning & Media; a laptop for every student works well in North Carolina, not so much in Alabama; and a Twitter chat on helping kids learn anytime, anywhere—all in this week’s PLAYBACK.2/03/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: News on Teens and Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Google+, And Schools That Don’t Allow Them
In this week’s PLAYBACK, blogging is better than diary writing in relieving stress, a new Parent’s Guide to Facebook, S. Craig Watkins on what kids miss out on when schools block social media, and more.1/27/12
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Sarah Jackson
PLAYBACK: Access, Literacy, The New and The Old Digital Divide
Tutoring via technology; the old digital divide persists while the drive toward mobile creates a new one; and Youth Radio’s Lissa Soep and HASTAC’s Cathy Davidson on what we know about teaching digital literacy … All in this week’s PLAYBACK.1/24/12
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Sarah Jackson
Access For All: The White House Announces New Summer Jobs Initiative to Teach STEM to Low-Income Teens, Prepare Them for Jobs
President Obama has called on businesses and non-profits to help close the youth unemployment gap. Is teaching kids to code enough? We look at other models that encourage minority students from low-income communities to develop mobile apps, robotics and other technologies and to consider STEM careers.12/14/11
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Christine Cupaiuolo
