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January 30, 2009
[Excerpted from Mark's email message, Jan 29, 2009]
Article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed on the End of Solitude (in an age of total connectivity, do we need to teach students how to be alone?)
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i21/21b00601.htm
Information Literacy Standards that the Association of College & Research Libraries drafted in 2000 and which has been the subject of endless critique since. Livingstone talks about media literacy/ information literacy/ internet literacy and the differences between them, though I don't think she really sorts it out in the end.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm
The Horizon Report 2009 from Educause and the New Media Consortium. (attached). Really quite interesting!
Children and the internet: experiments with minimally invasive education in India by S. Mitra and V. Rana (2001).
This is supposedly connected somehow with Slumdog Millionaire. Computers were installed in "holes in the walls" in India and children were left to teach themselves how to use the keyboard, mouse, software applications, and Internet. The research was supposed to see "is curiousity and the desire to explore all that is necessary for a human being to learn new things? Can a child teach herself the fundamentals of a computer merely by PLAYING with it? (Kim Gush, "Digital Doorway--minimally invasive education in Africa").
So what happened? They not only taught themselves to use the software and hardware; they also taught themselves bioinformatics!
This study seems to me to contradict Sonia Livingstone's studies of British children's computer use in "Internet Literacy: Young People's Negotiation of New Online Opportunities." See podcast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20090121.shtml
Also see Kerschner et al.'s article below that refutes "constructivist" models in education in contrast to Gee's approach to learning and gaming.
Article downloads:
2009-Horizon-Report.pdf
Kellner Critical Media Literacy Concepts.pdf
Mitra.pdf
Stald Mobile Identity.pdf
March 6, 2009
[excerpted from Ian's email, February 22, 2009]
Yes Men New York Times:
http://www.nytimes-se.com/
Yes Men video news release:
http://laughingsquid.com/the-yes-men-distribute-fake-new-york-times-iraq-war-ends/
May 4, 2009
Carly Stasko's recent article on holistic media literacy:
pdf download
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