AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

I grew up with the belief firmly implanted in my head that video games were a bad influence that would distract me from more constructive pursuits, namely, reading. If the Internet had been as engrossing as it is now among kids, then that probably would have made the list, too. But technology isn’t an absolute [...]

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Teaching Jeff Corwin a Lesson Through Student Video Blogging - Learning Now
What do you do when you notice a TV personality could use a bit of help speaking Spanish? For a group of South Carolina sixth graders, the answer is to create a video blog and offer up some language lessons of their own.
Chris Craft [...]

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Educating Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas—EDUTOPIA
George Lucas and Daniel Goleman discuss the many ways that social and emotional learning enhance the education process.
Daniel Goleman and George Lucas may have taken very divergent career paths — one is a renowned psychologist and author of the best seller Emotional Intelligence, and the latter is [...]

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NYC Schools: Chattering Classes? — AD AGE
Most people would assume cellphones get in the way of learning. David Droga is betting they can help.

The creative big and founder of the start-up Droga5, who previously launched the highly successful Tap Project for UNICEF, is working with the New York City Department of Education to solve [...]

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Educators weigh merits of social network sites - The Los Angeles Times
Child advocates decry a report urging school boards to consider allowing access.
Educators and advocates for children are debating whether social-networking websites should join lunchboxes, clothing logos and soda machines as a route for advertisers to reach kids in school.
A group that lobbies against advertising [...]

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One Story, 50 Tools, Infinite Possibilities — PBS.org/Learning Now
This post tells a story about an educator, but it’s great value is links to various online storytelling tools.
Educator Alan Levine has proven the adage that there’s more than one side to every story by demonstrating 50 multimedia techniques to present the same tale. The result is [...]

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