"Students can all sniff out an inauthentic place of learning," the professor argues. "They think, If it's a game, fine, I'll play it for the grade, but I'm not going to learn anything."
TechCrunch was founded on June 11, 2005, as a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space. TechCrunch has now grown into a network of technology focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media.
A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time 'media multitasking' (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.
Have a story you want to share about the role of technology in your life? Want to rant about a particularly unfair policy at your school surrounding internet use? Want to share your favorite new technological tool with us? Related to the book Born Digital and the initiative of the Digital Natives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen.
The Technical Resources Program - Supporting Timber Education & Training aims to deliver resources that enable learning about the use of timber in the building industry.
A team of librarians monitors information technology literature, selecting only the best items to annotate for this free publication. The resulting issue of 8-12 annotated citations of current literature is emailed to a mailing list and is available as an RSS feed.
A workshop by Princeton University`s Center for Information Technology Policy invites academics, publishers, journalists, bloggers, and information technology researchers to compare notes on how the Internet is transforming the news media.
S. Wilson, O. Liber, D. Griffiths, and M. Johnson. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007, page 1386--1395. Vancouver, Canada, AACE, (June 2007)