Category Archives: Digital Fluency

Media Smarts Releases YCWW Phase III: Life Online

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Anita Brooks Kirkland

Are our assumptions about what kids do online accurate? This question is at the core of the approach the TALCO digital literacy project (Session 302 at Super Conference 2014) is taking. Media Smarts, the Canadian not-for-profit centre for digital and … Continue reading →

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Teachers’ Perspectives on Learning Technology

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Anita Brooks Kirkland

The Media Awareness Network (MNet) recently released the third part of its report, Young People in a Wired World. Phase III focuses on how teachers see the situation, and includes their perception of the state of affairs and ways to … Continue reading →

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Bursting the K-12 Bubble

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Anita Brooks Kirkland

So much has been written over the past two decades about how to put technology at the centre of learning, yet after all of these years not much has changed. Despite the breathtaking change in the social context of the … Continue reading →