September 2011 Blog Posts (10)

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Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.…

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Global Authorship is a vision for a next generation Internet and Advanced World Wide Web. The mission is to bring automated collaboration to every Internet-ready device, application, technology, or service and to universalize digital communications.

 

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There is a new acronym that is rapidly becoming embedded in the public narrative about technology and learning: BYOD. It stands for Bring Your Own Device. It opens up an area of inquiry that can be summarized in the following questions: How should communities, schools, and teachers address the issue of students wanting to bring their own digital devices to school? What new opportunities and challenges would a pro-BYOD—or an anti-BYOD policy—present? How do educators manage a BYOD… Continue

We hope you can join us on September 15th, either in person or via the webcast, for the announcement of the fourth HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition: Badges for Lifelong Learning.

Today learning happens anytime, anyplace, at any age. How can 21st century learners demonstrate their knowledge and skills? Digital badges can inspire learning, unlock jobs, educational and civic…

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Just a quick post on my research project, which began in my blog with the series of posts on Myths of Teaching & Learning some months ago, and was born of my interest to investigate the inertia to change of educational institutions and the alleged crisis of higher ed, especially in the States.

I had a wonderful opportunity this summer to be awarded a Scholar-in-Residence grant from …

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By: Caitlin Elizabeth Rockett, NICS

University of Illinois scientist uses advanced computing to study how global news media can forecast human behavior.

 

News abounds at lightning speeds—on the Internet and T.V., in newspapers, magazines, blogs, and social networking sites—but what do we get when we consume news? Scientist Kalev Leetaru believes news is capable of teaching us much more than just what happened…

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A collective regrouping critical essays that investigate our way of seeing and making sense of the things we learn by seeing. It questions visual languages as much as the complex relations we have with our media environment.



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IMAGERY IN THE 21st CENTURY

Edited by Oliver GRAU with Thomas VEIGL

Cambridge/Mass., MIT Press, 2011

7 x 9 ● 424 pp. ● 132 figures



Scholars from science, art and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.  With contributions by Marie-Luise Angerer,  Olaf Breidbach,  Adrian David Cheok,  Wendy Chun, Sean Cubitt,  James Elkins,  Oliver Grau,  Stefan Heidenreich,  Eduardo Kac,  Martin Kemp,  Harald Kraemer,  Lev… Continue

Danah Boyd, Jenny Ryan and Alex Leavitt

Abstract: The increasing ubiquity of the Internet in the everyday lives of youth has been accompanied by a whole new set of anxieties and concerns. While many have worried about how the Internet increases youth access to problematic content—including pornographic and violent content—little consideration has been paid to youth-generated problematic content. This article examines one genre of…

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