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In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. -
1voteElectronic communication now keeps us connected, wired, and cabled to the entire world. Why, then, do we often feel displaced and increasingly isolated in the global village? Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age seeks to answer the question: have media and technology created a social gap, eroding our sense of community?
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Last year, when researchers Justin Patchin and Sameer Hinduja conducted an Internet survey of about 1,400 young people, 34 percent of the respondents reported having been bullied online. -
2voteYale University said on Wednesday it will offer digital videos of some courses on the Internet for free, along with transcripts in several languages, in an effort to make the elite private school more accessible.
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3vote"It's not that the U.S. education system is not good. It's just that it's impossible to give personalized education at an affordable cost unless you use technology, unless you use the Internet and unless you can use lower-cost job centers like India," he said over a crackly Internet-phone line from Bangalore. "We can deliver that."
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1voteThe Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.
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1voteA valuable resource for educators is www.UthTV.com (pronounced “Youth TV”). Uth TV is an online community of youth (14-24) sharing original video, audio, image, and word creations. Members create profiles, upload their original art/media, receive feedback/ratings from community members, and gain high-profile exposure for their creations.
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2voteMaking lists and counting changes meaning of "friends". But Amanda Peters, 17, of Pinole, Calif., worries that friending teaches teens bad social skills. "All these friendships aren't real," says Amanda, who recently wrote a story for a teen literary journal about how friending is getting out of control. "If anything happens where you get annoyed with them, you can just delete them from your list.
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1voteThe New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.
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1voteJust how many Best Friends Forever can any one person sustain? Friendship may be linked to longevity and good health by researchers, but is there a tipping point when nurturing relationships becomes more of a burden than a joy?
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