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Video-game players often hold radically different views on what constitutes cheating. Today's digital fare represents the first time we've argued about the precise meaning of cheating. -
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Demos is a British think tank for democracy. They released a report on 1/11/07 called Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. They used interviews, focus groups, & youth diaries to collect data on how youth are using NDM. They identified different "types" of digital media users: Digital Pioneers, Creative Producers, Everyday Communicators, and Information Gatherers. -
2voteThis blog entry argues that we react so intensely against plagiarism for 2 primary reasons: 1) we value originality & creativity (that's why we tolerate Shakespeare's creative "copying") 2) we value a just distribution of labor (it's not fair for someone to get credit for someone else's hard work). Other considerations: our market economy values individualism; Americans value myth of hard work.
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2voteThis article provides a nice summary of the origins & political history of net neutrality.
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2voteJeff Jarvis: "Young people just have a very very different view of privacy than people in my generation…The truth is, on the Internet, if you don’t reveal some of yourself, you won’t find friends." The bottom line is that our cultural experience of privacy is changing, whether we like it or not. And I think it’s one of the biggest disconnects we’re experiencing with our students these days.
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2voteIncludes a good story about a Yale student whose video resume was posted on the Internet without his knowledge or consent.
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Author's quote: "we’re living in frontier country right now." Clay Shirky & danah boyd are quoted in the article. The author argues that 3 major changes define today's teens: 1) they think of themselves as having an audience 2) they're archiving their adolescence 3) they have a thicker skin than we do.
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