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Educating the Educators?

Social Networking Sites are increasingly becoming places where people articulate themselves, both aware and unaware sharing personal information to a huge society of internet users. Especially the exposure of young people online has been subject to anxieties and fears...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 10/05/08 0

PICNIC 08 – YOUNG Seminar: Virtual Spaces

Amsterdam 25 September http://picnicyoung.nl/ The motto of this seminar is that bringing computer simulations and games into the classroom will have a positive effect on the learning abilities of students. For a new media academic this can’t be very shocking news. Modern...
By Alessandro Valente on 09/25/08 0
ICT4E Zambia

ICT4E Zambia

For my Master Thesis I travelled to Kitwe, a town in the Copperbelt area in Zambia to study the use of ICT’s in Zambian Secondary school education. After a horrible first week of research in which my two laptops...
By Rikus Wegman on 04/14/08 6
New Media = New Education

New Media = New Education

Yesterday the graduation of the Sandberg Institute was held at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam. Together with the presentations of the graduates it was also the launch of the book ‘Masters of Rietveld: Dutch Design in the 21st Century',...
By Minke Kampman on 10/28/07 0
recap: mediamatic / tag event on Processing.

recap: mediamatic / tag event on Processing.

In a series of events organized around the theme information aesthetics, a collaborative effort between Mediamatic and TAG produced a Salon on Processing. For those who are not familiar with this phenomenon: Processing is an open-source software platform created...
By Tjerk Timan on 09/21/07 2

Shift happens

Sometimes, one needs to let the youtube do the talking. Suffice to say, we’re in the thick of it.
By Pepijn Uitterhoeve on 08/28/07 0
Multimedia Learning: a video by Eva Kol & Roman Tol

Multimedia Learning: a video by Eva Kol & Roman Tol

Part 1 Part 2 In this presentation Eva Kol and Roman Tol argue that multimedia presentations, that is presentations with the use of external visual tools, are an excellent instrument for stimulating educative progress.
By Roman Tol on 03/07/07 5