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To bring learning back into school

September 22, 2011 By Anne 3 Comments

This is a mashup of a blog post and a retweet. I'm basically retweeting (Twitter users' term for reposting someone else's tweet because you think it's worth your own followers' attention) educator and author Will Richardson's March 2011 TEDxNYED talk in case you missed it. At about 1:30 into Will's 14-min. talk, he mentions 17-year-old professional cinematographer Mark Klassen in Ontario. Here's … [Read more...] about To bring learning back into school

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media Tagged With: educational technology, James Paul Gee, learning, Mark Klassen, school, Social Media, Will Richardson

No ‘God complex’ in Net safety, please

July 25, 2011 By Anne 2 Comments

In his TED Talk, author Tim Harford tells the story of World War II prisoner of war Dr. Archie Cochrane and the start of his life-long observation about "the God complex" – the idea some people have that, no matter how complex the problem or conditions, they understand the way it all works and are "infallibly right" in what the solution should be. Problematic, if not dangerous in this … [Read more...] about No ‘God complex’ in Net safety, please

Filed Under: Risk & Safety Tagged With: Adapt, digital wisdom, God complex, Internet safety, James Paul Gee, learning, Marc Prensky, Tim Harford, trial and error, videogames

Why videogames are good for learners

March 22, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

As a gamer – to some extent, not entirely, but enough – you're master of your own fate, and when you're not, you can find help. You're not only in an environment, you're in an experience too – one that changes as you work and conquer problems and keep getting better. So it's progressive but self-paced – but also social, so less boring than purely self-paced. There are rules, but they're like … [Read more...] about Why videogames are good for learners

Filed Under: education technology, gaming, Research, School & Tech, Social Media, videogames Tagged With: Computer Clubhouse, education reform, James Paul Gee, Jane McGonigal, Joseph Kahne, MIT, Mitch Resnick, school, SCVGR, Seth Priebatsch, videogames

PBS Frontline’s ‘Digital Nation’: Presenting our generation with a crucial choice

February 1, 2010 By Anne 8 Comments

Seems to me, Gever Tully's Tinkering School would be the perfect antidote for all the concern about kids and digital media expressed in PBS Frontline's "Digital Nation" – hands-on problem-solving, lots of tools, collaboratively learning by doing, giving kids time to work the problem, celebrating and analyzing failures, teaching that success is embedded in the process (watch his TED Talk about … [Read more...] about PBS Frontline’s ‘Digital Nation’: Presenting our generation with a crucial choice

Filed Under: Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: Digital Nation, Douglas Rushkoff, Gever Tully, James Paul Gee, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen, Marc Prensky, Quest Atlantis, Rachel Dretzin, Sylvia Martinez, World of Warcraft

Net safety: How social networks can be protective

October 5, 2009 By Anne 12 Comments

Hmm. It's arresting to think about what Stewart Wolf, MD, discovered and presented at medical conferences – as told by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers – in the context of social media and online safety today. Back in the 1950s, he found a community in Pennsylvania statistically very free of the No. 1 medical concern of the time, heart disease, and looked into what was going on there. When Wolf … [Read more...] about Net safety: How social networks can be protective

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Risk & Safety, social networking Tagged With: digital citizenship, Digital Nation, Digital Youth Project, guild effect, Henry Jenkins, ISTTF, James Paul Gee, Malcolm Gladwell, online safety, Stewart Wolf

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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