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CoSN Receives MacArthur Grant to Explore Policy and Leadership Barriers to Web 2.0
<B>CoSN Receives MacArthur Grant: Exploring Policy and Leadership Barriers to Effective Use of Web 2.0 in Schools </B><br>The $450,000 grant began July 1st and over the coming year CoSN will focus on the following key objectives: <br>1.Identify findings from existing empirical research relevant to the use of new media in schools and the barriers to their adoption and scalability. <br> 2. Assess the awareness, understanding, and perspectives of U.S. educational leaders (superintendents, district curriculum and technology directors/CTOs) and policymaker’s on the role, problems, and benefits of new media in schools within a participatory culture context. <br> 3. Investigate and document the organizational and policy issues that are critical obstacles for the effective deployment of new media. <br> 4. Develop a concise report of findings and construct an action plan for intervention.
in list: Social Networking, School_Administrator
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Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media [Digital Youth Research]
UC Berkeley study administered by the Institute for the Study of Social Change. The findings on three years of ethnographic work on 22 different case studies of youth engagement with new media will be published in Summer 2008.
in list: Social Networking, Cybersafety Research, Research on Digital Youth
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