Recommended Resources: Digital Citizenship, New Media Literacies, Games and Learning. Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World is nearly 500 pages of workshops and lessons plans dedicated to teaching youth ethics for a digital age.
Produced through a unique collaboration of Harvard’s GoodPlay Project and Project New Media Literacies, it is all free online, as one giant download or as separate files. We were delighted to see it released, as Global Kids youth leaders played a role advising on various aspects of the project (such as through our Media Masters program, which tested some of the early curriculum). For those interested in the ideas behind the project, equally exciting is the Appendix, which is a thought provoking debate/discussion about learning in informal educational spaces between Henry Jenkins and Howard Gardner. As Howard writes, “The background to our group's participation in the Ethics Handbook is quite different from that of Henry Jenkins and of the New Media Literacies group.” 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad (video)
What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing. Today content curation is "sold", promoted and marketed as the latest and trendiest approach to content production, SEO visibility, reputation and traffic building.
But is it really so? Is it really true that by aggregating many content sources and picking and republishing those news and stories that you deem great is really going to benefit you and your readers in the long run? Is the road to easy and effortless publishing via curation tools a true value creation business strategy, or just a risky fad? How can one tell? Photo credit: theprint Let me clarify a few key points: 1. 2. 3. 4. For these reasons, I think that much of the apparent new curation work being done is bound to be soon disappointed by the results it will gain. Highly specific news and content channels, curated by passionate and competent editors will gradually become the new reference and models for curation work. Here's is my official checklist, to identify value-creation curation, from everything else. Why Curation? 2008 Social Networking Collaboration - OpenContent Curriculum.
From OpenContent Curriculum Project Overview---- Project One---- Project Two---- Project Three---- Project Four---- Project Five---- Teacher Notes---- Reflections Project Overview Why?
This past summer my eleven year old daughter asked if she could get a Bebo site to communicate with her aunt and cousins. She explained that her cousins had a small network of friends that posted pictures, and other information, and that her Aunt Mary (she is one of those cool moms) was part of the network. I did not check Bebo out myself, I did not check the age requirements. Turn the clock two months and my daughter is showing me a profile of an eight year old girl who was sitting coyly on a chair wearing short-shorts and trying to look cute. One more alarm bell, which I dismissed by saying "You'll delete her from your friends list, right?
" Another month went by. Finally, the alarm goes off. KIDS WILL DO SOCIAL NETWORKING. Can they learn safety skills, and pass them around to each other? Classroom Tools 1.