Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

PLAYBACK: New York Times Looks at Parenting While Plugged In

Plus: Liz Losh profiles media activist and educator Trebor Scholz; UK study finds a quarter of 8-to-12-year-olds online have social network profiles; Smithsonian creates its first museum mobile app ...

PLAYBACK: New Pew Report on Viewing and Creating Online Video

Plus: danah boyd on government transparency and information literacy; online resources for teaching the oil spill; “Doctor Who Adventure Games” and converged entertainment experiences ...

Who Says Young People Don’t Care about Online Privacy?

A new study shows young adults have become quite savvy about managing their online reputations.

PLAYBACK: Research on Cyberbullying

Plus: School libraries and digital media; Howard Rheingold talks collaborative inquiry projects with libarian Buffy Hamilton; starter tips for integrating social media into the classroom; and teaching tomorrow’s digital media entrepreneurs at Arizona State University ...

Not Too Cool for Privacy: Young Adults Monitor Their Digital Reputations

When Facebook decided last week to open up its members’ information to third-party websites and applications (initially forcing members to “opt-out” of something that didn’t even know was happening rather than giving them to choice to “opt-in”), everyone began to fret anew about the lack of privacy in the online world—and social networking, in particular.

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.

Want to Reach a Teenager? Try Texting

There’s a monumental shift in communication culture underway, though it won’t surprise anyone who lives with or spends time with teenagers: Text messaging is now the primary way that teens reach their friends, surpassing face-to-face contact, email, instant messaging and phone calls.

PLAYBACK: A Look at the National Education Technology Plan and National Broadband Plan

Plus: Tips and tools from InspirED; Michiko Kakutani’s review of books on the influence of digital media; an interview with Eric Gordon of Participatory Chinatown—all in Spotlight’s news round-up on digital media and learning.

Survey: Students Take “Free-Agent Learner” Approach to Education

A national education survey found that students are increasingly creating personalized learning experiences, using a wide range of outside-the-classroom resources, technologies and collaboration with other students.

“The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy”

A new report from the Pearson Foundation examines how digital media is affecting early literacy around the globe.