Before steps are taken to impose limits on the use of social media and mobile technologies in schools, policymakers and educators need to consider the consequences for learning that such restrictions would produce. In this document, we argue that such action should carefully consider the advantages of social media for learning and that these guidelines for responsible use bring media into mentored environments where they can be safely explored and shared.
Many of the problems raised by these new technologies – from bullying to engaging in risky behavior – are not new to the public discourse, but are merely being delivered in different media. The challenge to responsible educators remains the same: to provide stimulating and safe learning environments that support the acquisition of practical skills necessary for full participation as a 21st-century citizen. Achieving this without mentored use of new technologies seems both impractical and counterproductive. One of the most powerful reasons to permit the use of social media and mobile devices in the classroom is to provide an opportunity for students to learn about their use in a supervised environment that emphasizes the development of attitudes and skills that will help keep them safe outside of school.
PBS Learning Media is a dynamic platform offering the best of public media content and produced specifically for PreK-16 teachers. With free access to over 14,000 high-quality resources tied to national standards, teachers can download, save and share exactly what they need for an inspired classroom experience. holds more than 14,000 “digital learning objects” — videos, curricula, images, audio, and interactive sites
Julian Oliver has put his finger smack on the pulse. The paradox is what economists call a supply-and-demand imbalance: Surging demand for 24/7 news has become inversely proportional to the supply of quality journalism.
MediaTomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface, it allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.
etalks.tv is a bilingual (german & english) online video platform, with a growing collection of informative interviews, live-events, debates and discussions in the fields of culture, politics, economics and science.
E' un’azienda specializzata nel monitoraggio dei media, producendo per i propri clienti rassegne stampa personalizzate, tratte dalla stampa nazionale, quotidiana e periodica, estera e territoriale, dai siti web e dalle emittenti radio e televisive.
This guide is intended for all broadcasters and producers. With the objective of the creation of a committee of higher representation of all estates interested in audiovisual communication media in order to involve them in the policies of normalization of the image of people with disabilities.Increasing and improving portrayal of people with disabilities in the media
Hootsuite can be used to – Blast your Facebook Marketing into the next dimension.
Deciding to take your business online can be challenging especially when you have to manager many social sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn at the same time.
It can be a time challenge to log into each social site to post your hot content.
- See more at: http://socialmediaonlinemarketing.com/how-to-dominate-your-facebook-marketing-using-hootsuite
Russia Today presenter hits out at Moscow over Ukraine Abby Martin, American anchor on Russian state TV channel, to be sent to Crimea after criticising military intervention theguardian.com, Wednesday 5 March 2014 08.07 GMT
the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made a splash in the financial media in April 2013 when it disclosed a trove of secret documents ...in the aftermath of the Cyprus deposit confiscation ... the ICIJ is back in the spotlight once again, this time revealing "nearly 22,000 tax haven clients from Hong Kong and mainland China."
by G Pramod Kumar Nov 16, 2012 Indian media has been full of Aung San Suu Kyi for the last two days with the headlines playing up the regret element - that she was saddened by India’s support to the junta, but never felt betrayed.
BBC 8 Nov 2013: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from inside Reactor Building 4 at Fukushima..... It comes down to what is, in the next few weeks, going to start happening inside one building at the destroyed nuclear plant. ... So what can I report? Mainly that I feel somewhat reassured by what I have seen. The preparations for the fuel removal appear meticulous.
Guardian 27 Sept, 2013: "Don't even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would" – or the death of Osama bin Laden. "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011." On 1 October 2013, Guardian added this footnote: "This article was amended on 1 October 2013. The original text stated that Hersh sold a story about the My Lai massacre to the New York Times for $5,000 when in fact it was the Times of London. Hersh has pointed out that he was in no way suggesting that Osama bin Laden was not killed in Pakistan, as reported, upon the president's authority: he was saying that it was in the aftermath that the lying began. Finally, the interview took place in the month of July, 2013."
On the eve of the World Publishing Expo, the Board of WAN-IFRA expressed their concern over a growing number of cases of press freedom violations in established democracies, and called for greater respect for freedom of expression.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a not-for-profit, joint program of a number of regional non-profit investigative centers and for profit independent media stretching from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
By Monique Sené, physicist, Honorary Research Director at the CNRS, member of the Higher Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Safety, and President of the GSIEN Raymond Sené, physicist, GSIEN member Dominique Leglu, physicist, editor-in-chief of Sciences et Avenir
The film returns to the present day and the interview ends. The newspaper man, understanding now the truth about the killing of Valance, burns his notes stating: "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend".
Originally aired March 21, 2012 on BBC Two. Richard Bilton uncovers a struggle at the heart of US diplomacy between the ideals of freedom and spreading democracy, and the ruthless demands of American security and narrow self-interest. He examines what the WikiLeaks cables reveal about America's conflicted dealings with Egypt's deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak, and shows how US diplomats in Cairo missed warning signs that revolution in Egypt was coming.
Kaliber 5 juni 2005, undersökande journalistik i Sveriges Radio. Reportrar Karwan Tahir, Johanna Sjöwall. Kaliber har, i ett samarbete med P1-programmet Människor och Tro, granskat den saudiska missionen i Sverige. Vi har fått reda på att nästan alla f
I denna undersökning betraktas yttrandefriheten, skyddet för hedern och privatlivet samt källskyddet i Sverige, Norge och Nederländerna. Regleringen och rättspraxis i dessa länder jämförs med lagstiftningen och rättspraxis i Finland. Den europeiska konven
by Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts and one of the moderators of the mailing list nettime. He lives in Vienna, travels abroad and archives his public output at http://felix.openflows.com
Hervé Bourlard, from Idiap Research Institute ("an independent, non-profit research foundation specializing in multimedia information management and in multimodal man-machine interaction").
Verkligheten snurrar och vänder fort. När jag vid lunchtid i fredags lämnade en krönika om sajtens Wikileaks och dess grundare Julian Assanges roll i medieutvecklingen (som publicerades i lördagens DN kultur) var han alltjämt symbolen för sajtens globala
" "The network - which has employed a former AIPAC official, Wolf Blitzer, as its primary news anchor for the last 15 years - justified its actions by claiming that Nasr's 'credibility' had been 'compromised,'" wrote Salon's Glenn Greenwald in an article
"It was announced yesterday that the United States will have a missile defense shield to cover its allies by 2018. Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, told the House of Representatives Armed Serv
Antti-Pekka Pietilä (A.-P.). 9.3.2010. "Tämä on tositarina suomalaisesta arjesta: Isä tuo itkevän pikkupoikansa päiväkodin johtajan puheille. ”Poikani kunniaa on loukattu hänen sukunsa edessä”, isä sanoo. Poika on kertonut isälleen päiväkodin arjesta. ”P
Praise in Columbia Journalism Review for article by Lucy Komisar et alios in Miami Herald 2009 on Alle Stanford Ponzi Scheme (phony certified deposits). For this article, Lucy Komisar later won thef National Headliner Award, second place for Business
Yhdysvalloissa on esitelty keksintö, joka voisi mullistaa jopa koko maailman energiantuotantoa. Bloom Energy -yhtiö on esitellyt polttokennoon perustuvan laitteen, joka tuottaa edullisesti vihreää energiaa. Ensimmäinen asiakas on, kukapa muukaan kuin Goog
"his sexual hang-ups caused him to carry monstrously sexist views" - kolumnisten Connellan, som bl a hävdar , att G godkände hedersmord, citerades av Sven Strandén i Radio Vega 11.2.
We need a new phrase to describe this way that individuals act in concert and groups add up to more than the sum of their parts. Let's call it rugged collectivism (RC). RC is about a community pulling itself up by its collective bootstrap. RC is how a
Nyhet 29.12.2009: "Den brittiska medborgaren Akmal Shaikh blev under morgonen den första europé som avrättats i Kina på över 50 år. Shaikh arresterades i september 2007 då han fösökte smuggla nästan 4 kilo heroin till Urumqi, den autonoma regionen Xinjian
It is because his own Party stopped taking Gandhi seriously that most young people in India grow up thinking of him as a pious crank, used only as a meaningless icon, writes Madhu Purnima Kishwar. (India Together (IT) is an electronic publication devoted
"The Center for Reactor Information (CFRI) posts information in this category that improves public awareness of nuclear issues. The information informs choices on issues related to nuclear power." (-2007)
Co-founded by award-winning journalists Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter, Globalvision is a full-service, independent, international media company specializing in information, entertainment and educational programming.
Andrea Sanke's guests are : Jean Merkaert, advocacy officer on financing for development, CCFD, the Catholic Committee against Hunger and for development. Daniel Mitchell, senior fellow at the CATO Institute. Andreas Missbach, head of the Private Finance
John Feffer: "As anti-intellectualism grows ever more profound, only the comic can get away with being smart (everyone else is a pointy-headed elitist)."
In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale
F. Abel, M. Frank, N. Henze, D. Krause, D. Plappert, und P. Siehndel. The Semantic Web, 6th International Semantic Web Conference,
2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007,
Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007, Volume 4825 von Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Seite 871-878. Springer, (2007)