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Britta ended her talk on Friday with this provocative video 'Immersion', originally featured on the New York Times site. It's th...

Yesterday was the fifth in the ESRC Seminar series 'Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces ...

One can only wonder whether our new coalition government’s package of education reforms will do anything at all to reduce the inequities of ...

Wandering around the Lodo district of Denver is like remembering a past with its imposing warehouses which stored the spoils of intense agri...

Went to an early session today - High-Tech tots explored the intersections between literacy and technology in early childhood. Marina Bers w...

Why Cecilia Henriquez and Jessica Robles' work on expert identities in table-top games was placed with our work on SNSs under a title of...

Ruth sent me this political comment on a hung parliament today via Blackberry Messenger. It was a good reminder of nearly-now connectivity a...

R estricted networks might serve to entrap socially excluded young adults. In a previous post I suggested that all the hype around Web 2.0 ...

Last night after I'd finished teaching on Adobe Connect I took a few students along with me to the Infolit iSchool in Second Life to lis...

Cassie Hague and Sarah Payton Of FutureLab have done some great work in providing guidance and examples of digital literacy in the classroom...

Yes, the tenth anniversary issue of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is out! It's got some great articles by Anne Dyson, Jim Ande...

I have a chapter on UK teens' social networking as new literacy in this fine-looking volume edited by Donna Alvermann . As I'm looki...

I still keep a few curriculum publications going. Earlier this year I did this on writing sci-fi stories, but the one above which Scholasti...

In a short break from the more serious blog reflections, here's YouTube working its magic again - lounge music from the archive, complet...

I really enjoyed the Futurelab event on Web 2.0 and enjoyed meeting so many enthusiastic educators. The discussions sparked a number of ref...

The rise of the personalised screen view constitutes an interesting challenge to our definition of text. For most of the history of digital...

Dr Joolz has a good post on the Pew Internet Survey and some commentary on the wireless world. It strikes me that the real shift is happeni...

Gergen describes social networks as being 'typically composed of persons who share a particular interest or category, who make their ide...

Flicking through duGay’s OU text 'Production of Culture/Cultures of Production' gives a great insight into fin de siècle media studi...

The study of literacy has given pride of place to the text for much of its recent history. Whether in the social construction of meaning thr...