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5/09/11
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Christine C.
Last Day to Apply for Free Video and Music Production Training in Bay Area
Today’s the deadline to apply for a free week-long workshop on digital media and music production. Plus, PBS Teachers Blogs has added a new category covering digital media.4/29/11
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Sarah J.
PLAYBACK: The Power of The Game
Whyville’s Jim Bower on the death of the textbook; Gates Foundation announces funding for game-based learning; Achieving e-quality in children’s media; Joi Ito on open-source leadership; and Earth Day produces the best hack jam ever.4/28/11
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Christine C.
Creating Curators: Storify in the Classroom
Storify is now open to the public—making it even easier for students to become digital story tellers and curators. Plus, the future of Delicious looks bright.4/20/11
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Christine C.
How to Create Engaged Classrooms (Hint: It Doesn’t Start With Technology)
Several recent articles and posts call attention to misplaced technology priorities—and demand scholars take the principles of digital media and learning into traditional schools.4/13/11
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Sarah J.
DIY Education: With Design Thinking, Teacherpreneurs and Young Makers Educators Build a Movement for Change at TEDxSFED
Teachers, administrators, spoken word artists, inventors, poets and a chef were among the speakers who shared their own “ideas worth spreading” at the TEDxSFED conference this weekend at SOMArts in San Francisco.4/08/11
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Sarah J.
PLAYBACK: Nurturing Student Interest Through Digital Tools
Reading World of Warcraft; How online courses can promote deep learning; Peer critique on the Lauryn Hill/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman mash-up; and what kids say is their biggest obstacle to technology in school.4/01/11
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Christine C.
PLAYBACK: Everyone a Teacher—How Technology Can Turn the Tables (and Desks) in the Classroom
Unblocking social media in the classroom; affective learning is effective; kids as “makers” of their own education—and villages; gaming theories take hold at UPenn; the Quest is on in Chicago ...3/31/11
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Sarah J.
Carving Their Own Path: Rich Halverson Talks Interest-Driven Learning Online
What happens when we allow kids to follow their own path to learning? KQED’s MindShift interviews Rich Halverson, co-author of “Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.”3/24/11
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Christine C.
Humanities Courses & Digital Media: A Not So Brief History
Educators and students have been using digital media to build upon texts and reimagine literature and history since, well, the advent of digital media.3/03/11
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Christine C.
PLAYBACK: Learning In and Outside the Classroom - Skype, Wisconsin Protests, iPad2 and More
Wisconsin protests and media literacy; Skype for teachers; iPad2 for students; TED asks for student videos on ed reform; and why go to class?3/03/11
Filed by
Sarah J.
Beginning the Digital Journey: Getting Started with Tech Tools in the Classroom
How educators who think of themselves as technophobes can learn to be digital explorers.2/04/11
Filed by
Sarah J.
PLAYBACK: Preparing Students for Learning in the Digital Age
Early childhood advocates explore digital media; a teacher responds to the State of the Union; PBS documentary examines 21st-century learners; report on technology and learning in afterschool spaces, museums and libraries; and digital learning expands in D.C.1/28/11
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Sarah J.
PLAYBACK: Students Lead the Way, Following Kindergarten’s Digital Engineers into the Classrooms of the Future
Interest-driven learning; predictions for even more contributions from student programmers; the Games, Learning and Society Conference 2011 calls for papers, and much more.1/26/11
Filed by
Sarah J.
Learning Without a School? Why Educators Should Pay Attention to Experiments in “Self-Organized Learning”
With “The Granny Cloud,” researchers experiment with providing encouragement via Skype to self-directed learners in rural India.11/24/10
Filed by
Christine C.
