Update: Digg It Now!! Child advocates? Champions of change? Rev your social media engines. This Saturday, you can be a part of it all and see ‘how it’s done’ firsthand, as Age of Conversation co-authors (which I’ve written about here, here, and here) use social media tools to drive traffic to our link on Amazon converting eyeballs to book … [Read more...]
CBC News reports 18-year old Chris Avenir is now a free man, able to go about his Ryerson University classes without the deluge of digital cameras flashing around him and microphones "poking" him in Facebook style. His precedent setting social media hearing quickly became an attempt to determine whether an online study group constitutes ‘cheating’ in 21st … [Read more...]
Sleep-deprived digerati are schlepping into offices today, home from the SXSW interactive conference, brimming with mashups, and 'must-sees,’ from core conversations to Games For Change. Alas. (shoulder shrug self-evident) I wasn’t there due to my dang computer crash mishaps earlier, but then, neither was über-media academic goddess danah boyd (Berkman fellow; Harvard … [Read more...]
As you can see by the comment landed in my post yesterday, a San Diego State University student has already put up a "Chris Didn't Cheat" website to support 18-year old engineering student Chris Avenir in his Facebook appeal hearing taking place today in Toronto at Ryerson University. I don’t know who commenter ‘Davin’ is, and perhaps Chris doesn’t … [Read more...]
What’s the difference between a virtual study group & meeting face to face in the library or dorm room? Policy, please? So far, I've got to side with the students, as this makes no sense to me as a virtual educator… Why does Freshman Chris Avenir (story in the Toronto Star) face possible expulsion from Ryerson University for swapping tips on homework … [Read more...]
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