I am constantly looking around for research that investigates the role of technology in learning, and the recent snowfall in Seattle has allowed me to hide in my room and spend lots of time doing just that. In my search, I came across the Economist Intelligence Unit’s joint report with the New Media Consortium titled [...]
Tags: Economist, New Media Literacies, White Paper
Dear Professor Davidson, In your recent HASTAC post, “Facebook’s Messages may not be the right answer but it is the right question,” you bring to light a very important issue that plagues millions of people in today’s world: what is a better system [than email] for communicating with one another in the digital age? While [...]
Tags: Cathy Davidson, Email, HASTAC
In watching videos for this week’s TED Tuesday, a common theme arose between my selections – education as a self-organized and self-sustaining process. Both Professor Sugatra Mitra and TED Curator Chris Anderson touch on these ideas in the videos I’ve posted. Professor Mitra explains various experiments that he has done around the world as part [...]
Tags: Chris Anderson, Education, Hole in the wall, India, TED, Ted Tuesday
In his 2010 annual letter, Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates dedicated an entire page to online education. He does this, rightfully so in my opinion, because education online holds much promise for the future of learning, but needs significant growth and innovation before it can reach its full potential. While his letter does not make [...]
Tags: Bill Gates, Gates Foundation, Online Learning, TED
While I had originally intended to post about the New Media Literacies paper “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture,” I opened my computer and found Paul Levinson’s chapter on Twitter, from his book New New Media, thanks to the mass amounts of PDFs which I downloaded from my school library and have yet to read. [...]
Tags: McLuhan, New Media, New Media Literacies, Paul Levinson, Twitter