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March 17, 2010
How Would You Reimagine Learning?: New federal online portal asks the public for educational solutions and design ideas.
Category: Civic Engagement, Policy, Schools

March 15, 2010
Webinar on Networking and Negotiation as Skills in a Global Classroom: Project New Media Literacies presents the second installment of its professional development series for educators, “Networking and Negotiation as Skills in a Global Classroom,” on Thursday, March 18 at 7…
Category: Media Literacy, Participatory Learning, Schools

March 12, 2010
PLAYBACK: Survey: Teachers Choose Digital Classroom Resources Over Textbooks: Plus: Cyber-Bullying and the law; Teens check out digital space at public library; Learning through remixing and more—all in Spotlight’s Digital Media and Learning News Round-Up.
Category: After School, Libraries, Participatory Learning, Safety, Schools, Social Media

March 10, 2010
Can Cell Phones Help Teach Math?: When high school math teachers in rural North Carolina experimented with giving students problem sets via smartphones they found surprising and promising results.
Category: Mobile, Participatory Learning, Schools, Social Media, STEM

March 9, 2010
How Mozilla and Open Source Culture Can Inform Open Government Initiatives: Open source software has an illustrious history, fervent advocates and a quixotic stance in a capitalist climate. Can it also be a model for open government and civic action?
Category: Civic Engagement, Participatory Learning, Policy Comments: