I was reading danah boyd’s post today (hey, I’ve missed you!) where she was talking about

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being chastised for multi-tasking during some conference in Italy and proceeded to explain this a generational gap. Perhaps. My 72-year-old class mate, Mark Shea may disagree with that.
I am spoiled and tend to find myself in environments [...]

MCDM alumni Jac de Haan stars in this video and explains to fellow high-school teachers and youth organizers how pugetsoundoff.org is an “open community for teens to express their views — with multimedia.”

Pugetsoundoff.org takes on a interesting challenge: can we get teens to engage in advocacy by giving them a public space to debate their [...]

As a follow up to my last post, I got this article “Research funds for technophiles” by Mark Bauerlein. He criticizes the tech fanatism (the author takes some stabs at some of my favorite people like Jenkjins and boyd) which fails to address the central question of how digital media is changing learning.

Every where I turn there seems to be a foundation, organization or center developing curriculum to teach kids how to develop their digital skills. I confess I’m very skeptical of whether we really need this, though I’m recognize that there are tremendous divides among the different social, economical and mental abilities among young people and [...]