The Young and the Digital Talks with Mind/Shift
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 23rd 2011. Under Digital Divides, Digital Media and Learning, Mobile, Mobile Learning, Social Media, Technology + Education
Tina Barseghian's site Mind/Shift is a great resource for learning about some of the most interesting trends and practices in education, schools, and the lives of young learners. Mind/Shift spotlights ... Read More
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Digital Divides & Digital Literacies: An Ongoing Report
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 1st 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Technology + Education
Earlier this week National Public Radio's "Tell Me More" aired a conversation that I shared with Tony Cox about the digital divide. We talked about the ways in which the ... Read More
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Mobile Phones and America’s Learning Divide
Published By S. Craig Watkins On May 27th 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, Research, Technology + Education
During a recent research related visit to New York City I decided to take a stroll down 125th Street in Harlem. Among the assortment of shops and vendors on the ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital in PC World
Published By S. Craig Watkins On January 19th 2011. Under Book, Mobile, News, Social Media, Social Networking Sites
Last year my editor in Boston notified me that Western Washington University had selected The Young and the Digital for its Western Reads program. I learned that all new incoming ... Read More
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Breaking the Ice: Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media-A Blog Post for the Huffington Post Education
Published By S. Craig Watkins On January 10th 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, Social Media, Teens and Technology
Note: This piece also appears at the Huffington Post. When the social and digital media revolution gained momentum at the dawn of the new millennium no one would have predicted that less ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital on NPR’s Tell Me More-With Michel Martin
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 23rd 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Teens and Technology, Uncategorized
This week the NPR program Tell Me More- with Michel Martin did a two-part segment titled, What Digital Divide? The stories were a response to the growing evidence that black ... Read More
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Understanding the Mobile Lives of Black and Latino Youth
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 12th 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Social Media, Teens and Technology
Over the last few weeks I've been speaking with various researchers, journalists, and industry about some of the remarkable shifts that are happening in the mobile space. While much of ... Read More
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Mobile Teens: The Microsoft Kin Makes a Bid For Young Mobiles
Published By S. Craig Watkins On April 13th 2010. Under Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Teens and Technology
One of the most frequent questions I use to get from parents of teenagers about two or three years ago went something like this: "Should I get my child a ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital Interview w/MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
Published By S. Craig Watkins On March 5th 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Teens and Technology, Young Adults and Technology
In a follow-up to a recent set of events I did an interview with the MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning. Here's an excerpt. As the digital divide closes, ... Read More
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Changing the Conversation: Rethinking America’s Digital Divide
Published By S. Craig Watkins On February 23rd 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Teens and Technology, Young Adults and Technology
Over the last three weeks I've been involved in a series of events that address the changing digital media landscape. Flashback twelve years ago. In 1998 the National Telecommunications and ... Read More
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