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Wednesday 4th June 2008 10:13 am
Connie Yowell: Best of Links in Digital Media & Learning
MacArthur’s Education Director introduces a new monthly feature on Spotlight. Best of links will highlight exciting work in the field from around the web.
From the month of May we bring you Henry Jenkins attending a Harry Potter fandom dance party in teen second life, a fabulous new site from the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington, and a podcast with Tara McPherson, co-editor of the new International Journal of Learning and Media, on multimodal publishing, and much much more. Enjoy.
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Dumbledore for a Day: The Things You Can Do in Second Life
- Connie Flanagin‘s recent interview on C-Span about “The Youth Vote”
- CNI Podcast: Expanding the Scholarly Imagination: Vectors and Multimodal Publishing - An Interview with Tara McPherson
- Online game teaches immigrant kids about rights of due process on Boing Boing
- Wired Campus: A Sociologist Says Students Aren’t So Web-Wise After All - Eszter Hargittai in the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Global Kids’ blog post about their work with kids in juvenile detention
- John Palfrey on Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected, in the MacArthur Foundation/ MIT Press Series
- John Palfrey on Learning Race and Ethnicity, in the MacArthur Foundation/MIT Press Series
- Lucy Bernholz from Blueprint Research & Design on Game Changers on The Huffington Post
- Engaged Youth, a new site from the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at University of Washington
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Will
Posted on July 16 2008 4:05 PM
My apologies for coming late to the party as it were. I just stumbled upon the Digital Media and Learning project and am generally very impressed but I do have a couple concerns. After closely examining both the content of the web site and participating organizations it seems to me that the collective effort is very heavily weighed towards the academic and policy based aspects of the issue with little attention or focus on the actual practical application in the field.
While I certainly understand the importance of policy based research, it has been my experience in life that often the most significant insights into any particular issue arise not from research but from practice.
A second concern is what for lack of a better way of describing it is the total absence of any discussion much less focus on the implication for young people in developing countries who are in serious danger of being left out of much of the digital worlds advances and benefits.
My extensive contact with young people in developing countries leads me to believe that this omission is not only a tragedy of exclusion but even more a lost opportunity to actually get it right this time by integrating the International digital issues with the cutting edge digital issues and making sure that the dialogue is as inclusive as possible.