Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

3.12.10 | Cyber-Bullying Cases Put Heat on Google, Facebook: “Although Google, Facebook and their rivals have enjoyed a relatively ‘safe harbor’ from prosecution over user-generated content in the United States and Europe, they face a public that increasingly is more inclined to blame them for cyber-bullying and other online transgressions,” writes Dan Whitcomb of Reuters.

The story looks at the reaction of online activists to the case of three Google executives convicted in Milan, Italy, over a bullying video posted on the site

Library Site a Hot New Social Media Hangout for Teens: The Chicago Sun Times reports on the latest social media hangout: YOUMedia‘s Digital Space for Teens at Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library.

“Our goal is to draw students in so that they’re comfortable hanging out in the library, and then get them to engage with the workshops and technology in the space,” said Erica Neal. “We’re seeing more and more students who were hanging out, participating in workshops and on the social network. It’s been great to see their interests develop.”

Survey: Teachers Want Supportive Principals, Digital Media: Supportive principals are more desirable than higher salaries, and digital media is preferred over textbooks, according to findings from a survey of about 40,000 public school teachers (via the Seattle Times). The survey, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Scholastic publishing company, covers a wide range of issues, including student testing, salaries and learning standards.

On the subject of digital media, “just 12 percent strongly agree that traditional textbooks engage students, while 44 percent said the same about digital resources such as classroom technology.”

Spin: The Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010: DMLcentral digs out provocative insights, comments and observations from the Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 tweetstream. Links to the cast of characters is a nice touch.

Learning Through Remixing: Henry Jenkins introduces a terrific panel on remixing media. Eric Blankenship, Juan Devis, Renee Hobbs, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley discuss projects that take apart and rebuild culture: