Posted by: junea on: February 26, 2009
I had to break from my current train of thought to respond a bit to this statement from the National Association of Independent Schools: The Impact of Facebook on Our Students.
At best the article is short-sighted, at worst it is a well done spin-job designed to appeal to the basest fears of adults. A couple [...]
Posted by: junea on: February 23, 2009
As educators we’re usually concerned with how our students “learn”, and this concern is often operationalized as what “information” are kids getting? So the previous ideas of the networked student are apt in this context. However as recent work by Mimi Ito and colleagues suggest, youth are using social media in significant ways outside of [...]
Posted by: junea on: February 19, 2009
I’m glad that there is quite a lot of movement from educators interested in social media. For example, Alex Ragone over at edSocialMedia, in addition to all the usual suspects. Unfortunately, the academic world of research is lagging far behind the “real world”. This lag is a good and bad thing. Good because my dissertation, [...]
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