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
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March 5, 2010
Startl Extends Deadline for Three-Month Accelerator Program for Start-Up Companies: Interested in building educational digital products and services? Need help taking your project to the next level? Apply now for Startl’s incubator program.
Category: Mobile, Participatory Learning, Social Media
March 4, 2010
“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.
Category: Civic Engagement, Games, Identity, Digital Divide, Media Literacy, Mobile, Participatory Learning, Policy, Research and Studies, Social Media
February 25, 2010
Toward a New Ecosystem of Learning: Reflections on the Digital Media and Learning Conference: Highlights include talks on the participation gap by S. Craig Watkins, and Sonia Livingstone on learning and risk taking.
Category: Civic Engagement, Games, Family, Digital Divide, Media Literacy, Mobile, Participatory Learning, Research and Studies, Safety, Schools, Social Media, Virtual Worlds
February 24, 2010
Hacking Education From the Outside In: Startl supports the development of new “learner centric” educational products and technologies. Read an interview with co-founder Pheonix Wang.
Category: Mobile, Participatory Learning, Social Media, Virtual Worlds
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