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What are your digital literacy demands?

Posted on 15 April 2009 by Tod

I posted the following this morning in Digi Teen, a place for teenagers to discuss issues related to digital citizenship. Kleber Quevedo and his grade 8 students recently joined this network. In What is digital literacy? Terry Freedman says digital … Continue reading →

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Tools to Produce and Share

Posted on 20 November 2008 by Tod

Do you know what the “pod’ in podcast stands for? Watch this video to find out and learn how and why the TWIST team made its first podcast last week. It hasn’t always been so easy, you know? But today’s … Continue reading →

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Why Pangea Day Is Worth Your Time and Effort

Posted on 18 April 2008 by Tod

I think we can agree our world is becoming ever smaller/flatter/more inter-connected. An important consequence of this is that all of the issues that matter — war, terrorism, poverty, disease, human rights, environment, climate change — can only be tackled … Continue reading →

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The Economist Declared the Winner

Posted on 27 October 2007 by Tod

I received this message from Jeff Koo at Sparkpr, a public relations firm working for The Economist. It’s in response to my earlier post about Severe contest: The Economist Debate Series. Hi Tod – I saw your post about The … Continue reading →

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Debate on Education

Posted on 16 October 2007 by Tod

Enter the debate, pull the arguments, bookmark the site, get on the debate floor yourself in an Oxford-style debate on education. Last month, the editors of The Economist invited readers to choose the topic of our first debate. Your voices … Continue reading →

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