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Why the internet isn’t a cultural remedy after all

The first time I had an internet experience that crossed cultural boundaries was when I was using a first gen music sharing site like Napster to find J-Pop. I just happened to notice that this particular pirate/curator liked a lot of the same music that I did from my first stint teaching ESL in Japan…

March 2, 2016

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What would Jian do?

I posted this blog entry this week in response to Chapter 2 of danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens I’m really enjoying my role as facilitator in the TVO TeachOntario book club collaboration with the Ontario School Library Association. Our discussions are so rich. It’s never too late to join.…

February 2, 2016

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#BIT15Reads: Building a Participatory Learning Community of Professional Readers

Today I submitted this paper as a part of Treasure Mountain Canada 2016. If you don’t know this is an event that involves the best minds in Canadian School Libraries. To see all the papers, go to: https://sites.google.com/site/treasuremountaincanada4/home Be sure to follow the live events on the blog: http://tmcanada.blogspot.ca/ Be sure to follow the hashtag this week: …

January 23, 2016

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#BIT15Reads, #tmcanada2016, danah boyd, ECOO, Garfield Gini-Newman, George Couros, Jennifer Casa-Todd, Leslie Boerkamp, Martha Jez, Melissa Jensen, Nina Simon, OSSEMOOC, Stepan Pruchnicky, TeachOntario, The Participatory Museum, Treasure Mountain Canada
#BIT16Reads: Branching out

January 9, 2016

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#BIT16Reads, Creating Thinking Classrooms, danah boyd, Garfield Gini-Newman, George Couros, It’s Complicated, Jennifer Casa-Todd, Melissa Jensen, ontario school library association, OSSEMOOC, Participatory Culture, professional development, Roland Case, TeachOntario, The Innovator’s Mindset, TVO
#BIT15Reads: Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

Dataclysm: Who We Are by Christian Rudder My rating: 5 of 5 stars I can already think of 12 people in my school who should read this book. That hasn’t happened to me since Danah Boyd‘s It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. I will pass this on to the math teachers, the social science…

October 5, 2015

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It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd

It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd My rating: 4 of 5 stars Throughout danah boyd’s “It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens”, I’m very satisfied with the level of sophistication of boyd’s research and unbiased point of view in her writing. Her tone is academic, professional and at the…

July 21, 2014

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danah boyd

Why the internet isn’t a cultural remedy after all

What would Jian do?

#BIT15Reads: Building a Participatory Learning Community of Professional Readers

#BIT16Reads: Branching out

#BIT15Reads: Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd