digital literacy

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• The importance of digital literacy

  
  Social Hallucinations — Authority: 119
  Howard Rheingold on the importance the literacy in participation and sharing is what will decide whether Internet will be useful tool or garbage.  The Internet as Playground and Factory - Howard Rheingold from Voices from The Internet as Play on Vimeo .
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• Weekly Wrap: 10 Social Media Commandments, Glee Obsession, Life Without Facebook, Digital Content is the Future, PS3 Social Upgrade, Life After Oprah, Pakistani Youth & More!

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  Youth Impact Report 09 > Ryan Murphy full of Glee > Series creator has the youth audience by the throat">Ryan Murphy full of Glee : Thanks to his breakout Fox hit "Glee," Ryan Murphy not only has hisfinger on the pulse of the youth market -- he has it firmly by thethroat, so to speak. The exuberant ...
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• Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  Research conducted by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children fromEngland and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own socialnetworking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greaterconfidence in writing. Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, said: “ Thedigital ...
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• Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue on the Ethics of Digital Life

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  Global Kids , Common Sense Media , and HarvardUniversitys GoodPlay Project havereleased Meeting of Minds , a report that highlights the ways in whichparents, teachers, and teens relate to the emerging dimensionsof life online ranging from virtual worlds, social networks and/or the ethics of digital content ...
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• Warning: This blog post has been digitally enhanced

  
  The LAMP — Authority: 115
  Perusing the New York Times this morning, I came across another piece about the idea that digitally altered photographs for advertising should be labeled as having been retouched. The idea is that if we’re told that a photo of a model isn’t “real” then we might not feel as bad about our real-world physical ...
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• Facebook power

  
  my vedana — Authority: 118
  I learnt today that PGCE students compare school placement experiences through Facebook. Well I expect they’ve been doing it for some time, but the difference is that now the staff have cottoned on! So there’s a sort of student backchannel that exposes the wide variety of provision and experience. Ofsted would ...
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• Teen Panel: Lady Gaga, Jamie Foxx Songs Unhealthy

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  An initiative to encourage healthy teen relationships says songs by Jamie Foxx and Lady Gaga are the musical equivalent of junk food. A teen panel working with the New tool provides food for thought for iPod users">Boston PublicHealth Commission has determined that their songs are among the top 10with ...
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• The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  " Glee">Glee , the hit show about a high school Glee club, has very sharp claws,which is one reason kids like it so much. It is routinely, ifhilariously, cruel (the sweet jock is described as so dumb, "hescheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows"). Butno darker current--let alone ...
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• Should you friend your students? The short answer is no

  
  SocialTech — Authority: 104
  Earlier this year I delivered a further cyberbullying guidance document on behalf of Childnet International for the UK Governments Department for Children, Schools and Families . The Guidance follow up (and designed to compliment) cyberbullying guidance , a comprehensive document  that formed part of the Safe To ...
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• LOC and Facebook

  
  History Tech — Authority: 121
  I’m not sure what your mental image is of the Library of Congress. Mine used to be quiet reading room, huge stacks, grumpy shushing gray haired librarians and stuffy atmosphere. (And, of course, that huge underground facility where they stored Indiana Jones’ Ark of the Covenant!) But my mental image has changed ...
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• Weekly Wrap: Parenting Backlash, Twitter Christmas, Google & OpenID, BBC BullyProof, Africa & Web 2.0, Xbox Live Gets Social, Virgin Mobile, Homeless Teens & Lady GaGa

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting By Nancy Gibbs">Backlash Against Helicopter Parents : The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids. We were so obsessed with our kids success that parenting turned into aform of product development. Parents demanded that nursery ...
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• Perú: Capacitan a docentes rurales en nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  La asociación Empresarios por la Educación, una instancia que agrupa a las principales compañías mineras peruanas, y de otros sectores productivos, invertirá este año más de 22 millones de nuevos soles en la capacitación de docentes de primaria de las zonas rurales de Perú en las nuevas tecnologías de la ...
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• PhoneBook

  
  Bill Boyd - The Literacy Adviser — Authority: 112
  The merging of digital technologies and traditional storytelling took another leap forward recently when Japan’s Mobile Arts Lab announced the PhoneBook, which works by inserting the Apple iPhone into the pages of a story book, allowing the child reader to interact with the changing background, or to change ...
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• Online help for farmers to learn finances

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  The Center for Farm Financial Management has developed an online series to aid farmers in a huge aspect of farming -- finances. The series, "Interpreting Financial Statements and Measures," goes through four major financial statements and 21 financial measures. While producers may know a lot about growing a crop, ...
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• Agricultores y ganaderos españoles conocen ventajas de las tecnologías en su trabajo diario

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  El Plan de Alfabetización Tecnológica y Software Libre de Extremadura (PAT) organiza este evento que tiene como objetivo general informar acerca de los servicios telemáticos que ofrece el gobierno regional, de las posibilidades que ofrecen las TIC para la mejora de sus negocios, además de mostrar experiencias ...
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• Weekly Wrap: Shoppers Hit Social Networks, Future of TV, John Mayer & Internet Rule 17, InStyle Augmented Reality Issue, Entertainment Subscriptions Hold Up & More

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  Mobile Will Become the Hub of Multichannel Consumer Relationship : Marketers seeking to sprint out of therecession need to become multichannel-friendly and completelyconsumer-focused, and get over themselves. The need to constructdata-rich profiles of customers, personalize responses to their needsand smartly ...
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• Your New Best Friend, Social Networking in the First Year Experience (Part 3)

  
  Swift Kick Central — Authority: 405
  The following is the third draft slice (heres part one , and two ) of an upcoming curriculum supplement I am writing for Bedford / St. Martins press. While Im numbering these parts 1,2,3, etc., the sections themselves wont be in this order in the actual curriculum, this is just the order in which Im finishing them. ...
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• Global Youth: Turkish Millennials Love Instant Messaging, Facebook & Google

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 468
  According to 93% of Internet Users in Turkey Visited Google Sites">research conducted by comScore more than 19.7 million people age 15 and older accessed the Internetfrom a home or work location in Turkey, viewing anaverage of 3,070 pages of content and spending an average of 31.6 hoursper person online giving ...
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• UAE Education Events You Won’t Want to Miss!

  
  Literacy is Priceless — Authority: 410
  The education scene in the UAE is very vibrant and in an amazing period of growth and productivity. I feel so fortunate to have an opportunity to learn from and contribute to the important education initiatives in Dubai and beyond. For UAE educators and enthusiasts that are looking for fun and educational events to ...
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• Inventor del Web busca mejorar las condiciones de vida (en zonas rurales)

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  El artículo en ComputerWorld reporta sobre dos proyectos que Berners-Lee, el inventor de la Web, anunciará el domingo en el Internet Governance Forum 2009 en Egipto. Estos se centrarán en aprovechar la tecnología Web para mejorar la agricultura en África y enseñar a los más jóvenes cómo crear contenidos ...
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