A Blueprint for 21st Century Engagement
This week, PBS Teachers rolled out its curricular guide for the 2008 election. It offers teachers a range of online tools created by the public broadcasting community to encourage civic engagement, embracing social media with each lesson plan.
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Filed under : Blogging, Cool Tools, Media Literacy, Video, Youth Media
Internet Orgs Weigh in on Lori Drew Prosecution
In an interesting legal twist to the Megan Meier saga, a group of high-powered Internet law advocates have published a brief in relation to the case against Lori Drew, the woman being prosecuted in the wake of Meier’s suicide. In this brief, they argue that the government has overstepped its authority by charging Drew with a crime.
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Filed under : People, Policy, Safety
On Order: Half a Million Classmate PCs to Portugal
This week, Intel announced a major partnership with the government of Portugual to supply half a million low-cost Classmate PCs to Portuguese primary school students. One can only imagine the disappointment of MIT’s One Laptop Per Child initiative, but that don’t count them out just yet.
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Filed under : Cool Tools, Digital Divide, Policy
Appeals Court Smacks Down COPA
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled against the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a law passed in 1998 to prevent minors from accessing harmful Internet content. It’s a major victory for free speech advocates who felt the act was poorly conceived.
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Going Ape over APIs
When educators talk about Web 2.0, they often focus on the community and publishing aspects of it - social networks, blogs, user-generated content and the like. And while these tools come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, there’s often one important thing they have in common - something most educators probably haven’t heard of. It’s called an API, and it helps make the Internet the rich, interconnected ecosystem it is today.
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