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A Policy Quandary

Posted by: Michelle Baldwin | May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments |

Do we need to protect ourselves from… ourselves?
I’ve been doing a lot of research with colleagues in the last few months in the realm of public school district policies, especially pertaining to internet, web 2.0, social media, filtering, etc.
What we’ve found is many schools who have vague language in their policies, and who rely on [...]

under: 21st Century Learners, Monthly Think-About
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Laptops vs Handhelds

Posted by: Michelle Baldwin | March 3, 2009 | 8 Comments |

Cross-posted as a comment on Scott McLeod’s blog, Dangerously Irrelevent, as a response to a request from Russ Goerend, who blogs at TAGMirror. I posted the comment, and thought, “That sounded more like a blog post than a comment. Hmm… I haven’t posted in a while. Maybe I should cross-post.” So, there you are.

When people [...]

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For quite some time, the Digital Divide has been a term describing the existing gap between the “Haves” and “Have-Nots” — pertaining to access to technology. Essentially, the Digital Divide classifies people all over the world into two classes: those who have access to and know how to use digital technologies, and those who don’t [...]

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