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Youth Discussion: the Role of Adults Within Online Teen Spaces

The current spotlight in the Digital Media and Learning blog sponsored on the MacArthur Foundation site is of particular interest to those interested in new spaces for scholarship.
“What can adults offer to teen spaces? What does their presence take away? When is it not safe to have adults and teens interact? When are teens ONLY […]

Posted in Topics: Digital media, Education, Social Studies

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Drivetime Listening: Web Kids Podcast Available

The podcast from “Meeting Web Kids on Their Own Turf: Expanding Online Social Spaces for Scholarship,” is available from:
http://nsdl.comm.nsdl.org/meeting/archives/2006/podcast.rss
http://nsdl.comm.nsdl.org/meeting/archives/2006/podcast.html
The Web Kids Panel discussion that took place during the National Science Digital Library’s Annual Meeting at AAAS in Washington, D.C., continues to spawn comments in this blog. The challenges and educational potential of […]

Posted in Topics: Education, Technology

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Intellectual property left rotting in file cabinets and obscure databases….

….A provacative idea that organizations involved in the Open Repostitories movement (and others) are working to address. Anyone who has ever bemoaned the state of their personal organization systems–I must clean out that file cabinet, or if I don’t get those photos organized and into an album they won’t make any sense to anyone, or […]

Posted in Topics: Social Studies, Technology

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