Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century; published by the MacArthur Foundation. The Executive Summary is definitely worth checking out.
Photo-oriented bookmarking sites are emerging to entertain the eye as well as the mind.
We Heart It screenshot.
Enlarge This ImageThe sites — We Heart It, FFFFound and Vi.sualize.us — resemble constantly changing art installations. Similar to a white-walled gallery, they present with little to no flourish: simple, c lean interfaces are all that stand between visitors and eyefuls of color.
Mario Armstrong, NPR Technology Correspondent, National Radio & TV Technology Talk Show Host and Co-Founder of the Urban Video Game Academy has launched a new online community for kids of color interested in the STEM world.
Although AR has mostly lived in the lab (except, notably, in the form of head-up displays for fighter jets), pop up books on steriods, museum tours, and virtual eye glasses are coming!
The HP Scholar Award is a highly selective scholarship opportunity for students interested in CE, CS, or EE. The total value of the four-year cash scholarship, HP Scholar Productivity Package and the three paid internships may exceed $40,000 per student.
Shah will take a leave of absence from Google.org, where she helps to define Google's global development strategy and promote its philanthropy work, at least till Obama is sworn in on January 20 as the 44th U.S. president. She will help usher in new U.S. government technology leadership and policies, focusing on preparing new U.S. technology policies and helping to ensure a smooth transition.
ISTE's journal this month has some great articles! Check out the piece on girls and engineering on page 24. It's a middle school partnership with IBM in Vermont. If the link doesn't work, email me and I'll send it to you.
While electronic books haven't quite taken over the adult market, they've been very successful with the pre-school set! Now, web-based and linking fiction with non-fiction, this could have some real relevance in the classroom. What do you think?
So what exactly might be those jobs we are preparing students for that don't yet exist? Here are some pretty good ideas!
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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century; published by the MacArthur Foundation. The Executive Summary is definitely worth checking out.
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