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Twitter Is Broad-Casty, Facebook Is More Conversational
We already had mentioned Danah Boyd in other posts. She is a a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In this opportunity, Danah begins a conversation about practices and inte...
Digital Literacy Programs Needed to Embrace Digital Tools
Marisa Connolly, from Common Sense Media submitted a press release about what education experts consider, based on the available digital media, it is a new approach to learn: Digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and ...
Sexual Education Begins at Home , But it Fails
On July we started reading a very interesting book by Debra W. Haffner. There is a post about How to Protect Your Children Online and this is the continuation of what we offered back then. In this opportunity, we will refer to Chapter 6, Raising Se...
Impacts of a 2008-2010 Recession in Children's Well Being
The Early Ed Watch Blog:A report released this morning, shows that children's well-being started to decline last year and is expected to dip to its lowest point in 2010, when many economists believe the full impact of the recession will be felt.It pr...
Duncan Announces His Senior Staff Appoinments
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan today announced the following nine appointments to his senior staff. Get to know them:Margot Rogers, Chief of StaffMargot Rogers comes to the Department of Education from the Bill and Melinda Gates F...
Food for Thought: The Quality of Education for Low-income Families
Why should we expect education markets to succeed in bringing higher quality schools to low-income communities?We really got stunned by this sentence: "It costs money to be poor." That's how begins a post on The Quick and the Ed, his editor Erin Dill...
The Outbreak of H1N1 Also Works for Goofing at Schools
With panic of the Swine flu causing hysteria around the country and closing many major school functions already, the media over dimensioning the case and people afraid of o level 6 warning, a junior student decided to tap into that fear with a little...
The Notion of Neo-liberalism as Public Pedagogy
We came across to CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) blog where Joyce Middleton writes about Vorris Nunley's work. Professor Nunley is interested the intersections of rhetoric, space, and episteme. He works as an assistant pro...
Why the "Liberal" Obama Is at Core Little Different From the "Conservative" He Replaced
The plan that will be announced on Monday is awful, another giveaway to investors. Be prepared to live in tent cities that well can be named "Barackvilles".After the scandal about AIG bonuses, people feels uncomfortable about the deafness tone by the...
Curriculum: Playing to Be the Education Board for Once
Analyze, plan, design and execute a proposal is a goal administrators need to master. If the subject is curriculum, then they need not only master but socialize the necessities of future society.I've found interesting a thread that is taking on Redit...
Is Homework Cruel, Inhumane, Stressful And Unhealthy?
Story: Fifth Graders of the Nation: Unite Against HomeworkI don't think we agree with Benjamin Berrafato because we never really liked them either, but here, things get to the level of social networks where this fifth grader certainly got the idea....
PhD Research on Teens and Online Social Networks
Blogger, speaker researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Danah Boyd recently finished her PhD. at University of California, Berkeley, and for those interested in youth culture...
Obama's "Era of Responsability" Applied to Education
Photo credit: Irina SouikiNo matter whether you are on the right, left, or center, there is an assumption that parents are being irresponsible in the raising their children when basic education is on call. The worst thing, there’s nothing policymak...
