The OLPC project founded by Nicholas Negroponte is a shining example of how access to digital media and learning can really change lives. As Negroponte is keen to point out, this is not about the laptops, it’s about education and learning and the positive results are irrefutable. This is an education project not a laptop …
Basic Skills for Future Needs
In yesterday’s post on digital literacy I mentioned that the Danish Institute of Technologies page on digital literacy stated that digital literacy had to be underpinned by the development of basic literacy skills. In this short video from the PBS in the USA, Mark Bauerlein, professor at Emory University and the author of The Dumbest …
The Future of Education: Snippet 1
I’m tracking down commentary on what education requires for the future or what schools and education may look like in the future. Here is is the first snippet from the PBS network in the USA. Marc Prensky is the author of Don’t Bother Me Mom — I’m Learning and argues for a complete about-face in …
Digital Literacy
It’s a commonplace perception that kids born after internet access started to find its way into our lives have an incredible capacity for picking up and using new technologies but in terms of developing digital skills that will be critical throughout their schooling and into their working lives, are these kids being provided with the educational …
New digital research network
The Australian Council for Educational Research has just launched a new network to further research in education and the use of digital media. Understandably, there isn’t much there at the moment but the initiative is very welcome and hopefully will encourage some productive networking and collaboration between those interested in digital media and education. The …
Internet Borders: Where the Information Stops
Vinton Cerf is one of the masterminds behind the original technology that drives the internet and is outspoken about how information should be made available on the internet. As many countries, including Australia, take steps to restrict access to certain classes of information the debate around government censorship of the internet is heating up. Cerf …
In Digital We Trust?
A recent article in the SMH (16-03-2010) reports on a survey conducted to determine the comparative trust level that Australians have between information delivered via traditional media and digital media. According to Peter Lewis, Essential Research’s director (the source of the survey), the results demonstrate that ‘consumers sought a distinction between news and opinion, which …
Living in a Digital World
Following my recent posting on how the digital world may be a genie with a capacity for tremendous benefit whilst harbouring the potential to create significant social problems I was fascinated by the following video. Well worth the hour or so you will need to watch it. It shows just how embedded digital media and …
Transmedia: Fear of the Lexicon Goblins
Transmedia. Just another word for the bulging digital media lexicon? Is it replacing ‘multi-channel’ or ‘multi-platform’ or even ‘cross-media’ or that old dinosaur ‘multi-media’? The Wikipedia entry for ‘transmedia storytelling‘ tells us: A transmedia project develops storytelling across multiple forms of media in order to have different “entry points” in the story; entry-points with a …
