Blog Archives: Civic Engagement
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1/17/11
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Issues of “Collaboration, Generosity and Authority”: Wikipedia’s Impact on Education
Wikipedia turned 10 years old on Jan. 15. In practical as well as well as in subtler, symbolic terms, its impact on education has been profound.1/13/11
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Mobile Media: Turning Quantity into Quality, Access Into Empowerment
A digital divide exists, but it’s not simply about access to technology anymore.1/11/11
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Circulating Digital Freedom: Libraries Lead the Way
Librarians and libraries are increasingly on the frontlines of improving digital literacy as well as using the latest digital tools to confront some old-fashioned attempts at censorship.1/06/11
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Sarah Jackson
New York City Millennials Heed a Digital Call to Action
PandoProjects, a New York City nonprofit working to help members of the millennial generation develop new solutions to community problems, has just announced an inaugural group of project leaders.1/04/11
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Think Globally, Act Digitally: Teaching With Kiva
In a recent post on The Tempered Radical blog, Bill Ferriter—a 6th-grade language arts teacher in North Carolina—reveals how a simple idea, filtered through social media, changed his pedagogical world.12/23/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Changing the Changing World in the New Year
Bill Gates’ global technology competition for students; the top 10 predictions for ed tech in 2011; FCC’s conference on Generation Mobile; the new, hipper face of e-mail; an interview with Karen Cator about the National Education Technology Plan.12/17/10
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
PLAYBACK: The Digital Museum of the Future
Art on your iPhone; the eBook Summit; what the public thinks of the Smithsonian Commons prototype; a decrease in teen blogging; virtual fossil digs; feedback on iCivics; and holiday gifts kids can program themselves.12/15/10
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
A New Digital Literacy: Teaching Kids to “Self-Police” Online
Why learning to post content online in a civil and responsible way should be a core part of today’s digital citizenship curricula.12/09/10
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
12/03/10
Filed by
Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Get Your MBA on Facebook
Student journalists pick up reporting and news literacy/digital media skills; What makes a school newspaper blog a #fail; Knight News Challenge attracts hundreds of ideas for community news; the Digital Learning Council releases its policy recommendations; and a look at K-12 technology trends for 2011.12/02/10
Filed by
Barbara R.
The New Face of Activism: PandoProjects Help Millennials Turn Ideas Into Action With Digital Media
PandoProjects taps into Millennials’ social commitment and digital savvy with an online organizing platform for grassroots activism.11/18/10
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Sarah Jackson
Invent It: Knight News Challenge May Fund Your Media Innovation
The Knight News Challenge contest awards up to $5 million dollars annually to fund media innovations that use digital open-source technologies to distribute public interest news. This year’s applications are due Dec. 1.10/21/10
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
Sandra Day O’Connor Supports Teaching Civic Engagement Through Gaming
We enjoyed this interview with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the PBS News Hour last week. O’Connor, who has become a gaming advocate since leaving the bench, was touting iCivics, a web-based project that uses game play to teach middle school students about civic engagement.10/08/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Maker Faires = Political Activism, and Project NOAH Pictures the World
Plus: The case for social media in schools (again); a Senegal program adapts new media literacies and “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind”; MIT OpenCourseWare is indeed open and free; historians seek digital scholarship outlets; and how Howard Rheingold makes sense of it all.9/13/10
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
