faintly ridiculous. the older i get the more victorian in my values i become...

informal education as seen by the policy wonk folk

danah boyd talking about how we can learn from new techs. good overview of what she's all about.

"The younger kids are focusing more on their planning and problem solving while they are actually playing the game, while adolescents are focusing less on their planning and strategizing and more on the here and now," Interesting. Thought it would be the other way round.

Again, hyperbole, but interesting hyperbole nonetheless. Actually the key things here are how C gen negotiate public and private and also their role in peer group situations.

Great stuff here; players wanting to communicate with each other but being bound by the in-game rules and player collaboration being key to generating a community. Adversarial contact on the other hand, "deperso

Nice. A not-so-nerdy real world application of twitter.... via bowbrick

a spam-u-like offer to teens that gives service provision [txt and minutes] in exchange for txts from brands.

US college testing out RFID location and presencing technologies on campus to discover the issues around privacy.

fascinating stuff. wondering if this is some sort of wikinometry or the opposite, collective crowd wisdom, that will form the core learning at the heart of this ARG.