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How the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Nieman Journalism Lab - By Justin Ellis - May. 13 (News Report) - Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of criticisms, Rheingold says, miscalculate the ability humans have to change their behavior, particularly when it comes to how we use social media and the Internet more broadly. “If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool,” Rheingold said Thursday. Rheingold was visiting the MIT Media Lab to talk about his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, which examines how people can use the Internet not just to better themselves, but also society as a whole. Rheingold has a longer online history than most, going back to The WELL, one of the first online forums back in the 1980s. Ever since writing about that experience, Rheingold has developed a habit for dropping the kind of book that not just probes what it means to be online, but charts what that means for all of us.

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ARTINFO: 'Jeff Koons Must Die!!!' & 4 Other Art Video Games You Can Actually Play

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Artinfo - Apr. 23 (News) - In Hunter Jonakin's "Jeff Koons Must Die!!!" the player must destroy the artist's work with a rocket launcher. / Courtesy of the artist With the Smithsonian set to crown video games the latest institutionally-ratified art

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Breaking: Web Not Corrupting Our Youth After All

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Sep. 15 (News Report) - The Washington Post reports today on a new study by Sandra Hofferth, director of the Maryland Population Research Center, which concludes that it's OK for kids to spend lots of time on their computers: In what researchers describe as one of the first long-term looks at the effects of media use during childhood, a study released Wednesday linked hours at the computer with achievement test scores and behavior and found little sign of harm for children ages 6 to 12 as they increased their screen time over a six-year period.

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Rise in Distance Enrollments

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inside Higher Ed - By Scott Jaschik - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Community colleges continue to see increases in distance education enrollments, according to a report released at the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges here.

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Learning Technologists Look on the Bright Side of Budget Cuts

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Ohmynews - By William Pollard - Feb. 03 (News Report) - At Learning Technologies, a conference and exhibition in London last week, there was recogniton that training budgets were under pressure in the credit crunch. However there was also confidence that a strong case can be made for e-learning and increased use of the Web as a means to deliver more results for less cost. Adobe promoted Connect and demonstrated a fundamental switch from Postscript origins to a Flash future, behaviour consistent with the Andrew S. Grove theory that "Only the paranoid survive."

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Sustainability-Themed Video Games Come to the Classroom

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Edutopia - By Brian Libby - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - From global warming to pollution to vanishing wildlife, children face a world profoundly threatened by environmental catastrophe. Luckily, they have video games to help them through -- sustainability games, to be precise. These are a new generation of educational tools designed to help students learn about environmental issues. Ironically, this learning comes courtesy of technologies that many once believed would sap our attention spans and remove us from the very outside world that now needs rescue.

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Partnership for 21st Century Skills Calls for Reevaluation of Learning Environments

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

thejournal.com - By Dave Nagel - Jan. 27 (News Report) - The Partnership for 21st Century Skills released a new report Friday calling for a reevaluation of what we define as learning environment and advocating some sweeping changes in the spaces, tools, policies, and other aspects of education that the group characterized as urgently in need of reform. The report, "21st Century Learning Environments," suggested that the learning environments of the 21st century need to move away from Industrial Age conceptions that "mimicked the industrial forms that had so sweepingly transformed the workplace." That is, learning environments need to move away from a model in which schools mimic factories with their fixed structures, inflexible schedules, and various barriers designed for uniformity as both a means and an end. Instead, education systems should embrace the concept of "whole environments for the whole child."

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