Back to school with RIAA-funded copyright curriculum - Ars Technica

School kids in America could certainly stand to learn about copyright in the classroom-it’s a fascinating topic that increasingly impacts the life of every “digital native” and intersects with law, history, art, and technology. But should they be exposed to industry-funded ( Read more... )

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Back to school with RIAA-funded copyright curriculum - Ars Technica

School kids in America could certainly stand to learn about copyright in the classroom-it’s a fascinating topic that increasingly impacts the life of every “digital native” and intersects with law, history, art, ( Read more... )

What If? Technology in the 21st Century Classroom | OPSBA
On Wednesday, April 29, 2009 the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association OPSBA released a Discussion Paper entitled: What If? Technology in the 21st Century Classroom. As school trustees we want to engage the province in a meaningful focused discussion about classrooms of the 21st century ( Read more... )

Kevin Marks says: Epeus’ epigone: Press Release Use Causes “Serious” Brain Damage, Media Expert Says

THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Press Release Use Causes “Serious” Brain Damage, Media Expert Says
NEW YORK, NY (MMD Newswire) May 13, 2009 - Social media expert and author David Seaman claims that frequent Press Release use causes the “equivalent of brain ( Read more... )

Social Media: Folk Culture Locations for Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Construction is the slides of the presentation that Alex Bal and I did this week.

globeandmail.com: Universities plan joint digital media program

Three Ontario universities - Ryerson, Waterloo and the University of Toronto - are in talks to create a new graduate school of digital media in downtown Toronto, aimed at linking top-flight students with businesses struggling to adapt to emerging technology.

The joint venture, unveiled ( Read more... )

Clevergirl says

NYT: 21st Century Librarian is a great video currently up on the NYT video site about the role librarians play in (primary) schools these days. The libarian in the video talks at length about teaching children, particularly ESL-speaking immigrant children, to use search engines and understand that not everything online is true.

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A colleague sent me a link to the The Future of Children website. The Future of Children is a co-production of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. They’ve got some major events going on this spring, ( Read more... )

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I’ve had olpc.tv on my RSS feed for a couple of months but have not been paying attention to the amount of cool stuff there is there.

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Jeremy is again in a sharing mood, sending me this link for Aviary - Creation on the fly / tools

All of our tools are based right in your browser or as downloadable AIR applications. Our tools all communicate and relate to each other. To illustrate an example: You can import a ( Read more... )