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 […]

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 […]

In thinking about the promises and pitfalls of using new media in education I keep coming back to challenges associated with speed. 
How long has YouTube been around?  Well, three PayPal employees started it in February 2005 and less than 20 months later Google purchased it for more than $1.6 billion (that’s roughly $24 million […]

Kate Wittenberg recently placed a wake-up call that ought to jolt any sleepyheads who still think that publishing is the business of putting ink on paper. “Students have been quietly revolutionizing the discovery and use of information,” she wrote in the June 16 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. “Most students today arrive at […]