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Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

pictorialsoup — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:23:23 +0000

Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning – johnferry01@gmail.com – Gmail.

A new “quick study” by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center compares print,
basic e-books, and enhanced e-books when kids read with their parents.
They find that some highly interactive features of e-books can be
distracting for young children, but e-books are helping to build
enthusiasm for reading, an essential building block for literacy.

Artquest / Current Projects / Intern Culture

pictorialsoup — Mon, 28 May 2012 07:07:32 +0000

Artquest / Current Projects / Intern Culture.

Provoking debate and action on the pay, rights and conditions interns face in the visual arts.

Intern Culture brings together the research and guidance from 23
reports on internships in the visual arts since 2008. These sometimes conflicting and contradictory guides have served to inform – and confuse – organisations looking to hire interns, as well as interns themselves, leaving low-paid workers vulnerable to exploitation and unaware of their rights, and organisations in danger of breaking national minimum wage legislation.

via Artquest / Current Projects / Intern Culture.

Hacking Education, Teaching Media Literacy and More – Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

pictorialsoup — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:49:49 +0000

This week’s Playback looks at issues of digital access and how
education is being re-thought and re-taught in the United States and
around the world.

via Hacking Education, Teaching Media Literacy and More – Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning.

TED-Ed – Lessons Worth Sharing

pictorialsoup — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:41:49 +0000

TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing.

TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED’s, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning: ‘Unedited Moments in the Digital World’

pictorialsoup — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:29:06 +0000

Psychologist Sherry Turkle argues that the frequency with which we dive into our own devices while in the presence of others has led to “a new way of being ‘alone together.’” We sacrifice conversation for mere connection. But critics say there’s more to the story.

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The Magic of Going Mobile: Augmented Reality, Design Thinking and the Power of Place

pictorialsoup — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:12:20 +0000

The Magic of Going Mobile: Augmented Reality, Design Thinking and the Power of Place | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning.

Building Bridges: Social Participation

pictorialsoup — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:17:31 +0000

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“We Came to Play”: Lessons on Connected Learning and Creativity from Caine’s Arcade

pictorialsoup — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:06:01 +0000

http://bit.ly/IzLmTN

The viral success of “Caine’s Arcade” has not only changed the life of a 9-year-old boy with a warehouse-sized imagination—it’s changing the conversation about learning and play.

Using Wikis for Learning and Collaboration

pictorialsoup — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:42:27 +0000

http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/using-wikis-for-elearning/

Similar to Web 2.0, which makes use of newer web technologies for sharing information, eLearning 2.0 uses new technologies to distribute information, share knowledge and collaborate. Everyone knows about Wikipedia, a grand example of a wiki, but what about using smaller wikis in your workplace?

Solve For X: Google Presents Moonshot Thinking in Short, TED-Style Talks – Open Culture

pictorialsoup — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:30:59 +0000

Solve For X: Google Presents Moonshot Thinking in Short, TED-Style Talks | Open Culture.

Last week, Google hosted a gathering called “Solve for X,” which brought together entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists interested in finding technological solutions to the world’s greatest problems. These solutions weren’t small in scope. No, they were all “moonshots,” ideas that live in the “gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; they are 10x improvement, not 10%.” And these moonshot ideas were all presented in TED-style talks that now live on the WeSolveForX website and the WeSolveforX YouTube Channel.