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Schools’ disappearing walls: Explore the benefits!

November 4, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

School walls are disappearing. Probably anybody who's raising or teaching young digital media users has noticed this. For more than a decade and a half (in developed countries, anyway), schools have been opening up to the world just as more and more of the planet has joined the wired and wireless global network. Less and less can learning – formal or informal – be compartmentalized into rooms, … [Read more...] about Schools’ disappearing walls: Explore the benefits!

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, School & Tech Tagged With: Aspen Institute Task Force on Learning and the Internet, connected learning, formal learning, informal learning, interest-driven social networking, Marc Prensky, Mimi Ito, new media literacy

Prensky’s thoughts for 21st-century teachers

August 10, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

Marc Prensky, who coined the term "digital natives" and a few years ago moved on to write about digital wisdom, called on educators to show the courage to do what "they know is right" and wisely embrace the technology that will increasingly help all of us, including students, solve the world's complex problems. This was in his 10-min. portion of a collective keynote at this summer's International … [Read more...] about Prensky’s thoughts for 21st-century teachers

Filed Under: School & Tech Tagged With: digital natives, digital wisdom, education technology, ISTE, Marc Prensky, teaching

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

New media monsters II: From digital people to ‘digital wisdom’

February 4, 2011 By Anne 7 Comments

I'm using "digital people" as shorthand for "digital natives" and "digital immigrants," which together have become one of the "new media monsters" I wrote about, gosh, last April. This long overdue post is Part 2, because I want to be sure you know that even the person who coined "digital natives," Marc Prensky, himself has moved beyond this term that suggests children are alien life forms that … [Read more...] about New media monsters II: From digital people to ‘digital wisdom’

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: 21st-century skills, child development, digital literacy, digital natives, digital wisdom, Howard Gardner, Marc Prensky, Parenting

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

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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
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ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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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