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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 […]

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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 […]

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Across the Generational Divide

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 […]

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