Commentary on Now You See It by Cathy N. Davidson. The book makes many of the points made here over the years. She summarizes, "When we criticize students for making digital videos instead of reading 'Gravity’s Rainbow,' or squabbling on Politico.com instead of watching 'The Candidate,' we are blinding ourselves to the world as it is. And then we’re punishing students for our blindness." Fair enough, and also: "The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects." Learning by doing; how about that. Davidson has a blog, but it defaults to displaying only the most recent post, so you'll need her RSS feed (you'll have to copy the URL and read it in Google Reader or some such thing, as there's an XML coding error that prevents browsers from displaying it). More reviews from Reyn Bowman, Will Boisvert, Serena Golden, Anya Kamenetz.
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