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Online child safety and literacy

I’ve been doing a bit of light research into competencies of “digital natives” and stumbled across a neat little slideshow (see below) on the PEW Internet and American Life website. It’s closely relevant to the discussion we’re having in class right now about the use of publicly accessible blogs in school and the safety/risk implications thereof. For an intelligent and objective look at the hype about digital natives/millenials/net generation, see Mark Bullen‘s blog Net Gen Skeptic.

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Downes on Educational Blogging

Here’s a blog post I wrote in November 2008,  in response to Downes’ article:

http://cellodav-blogtolearn.blogspot.com/2008/11/reading-to-blog-to-learn.html

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