Teaching for the Future: Episode 50: Children Still Are Not Tiny Adults

I'm excited to have finally reached episode 50. Thank you for all of your help and your support over these few months. Also expect to see a new video post during the week around Tuesday or Wednesday. I got a chance to go to the Boston Media Makers meeting in Jamaica Plain. You should definitely check out the Meeting Report. I'd expect to hear some of my audio from that meeting over the next few weeks.

News:

Madden Birds & Bees '07 via The Out Route:
This is a weird story of a young man who received pornography instead of a copy of the new Madden 07 game for XBox. I think that this was probably a freak accident, but I think this is evidence that consoles, like computers, should be kept in main rooms where kids can be supervised.

Saddam Video Copycat from The Copycat Effect:
Loren Colman is a researcher and author of The Copycat Effect. He discusses the resent rash of "Saddam Imitators". This is the first blog post, but Coleman has recently posted about 2 more incidents. Though he does not really seem to comment on the incidents himself he describes the copycat effect at the top of the page as "The copycat effect is what happens when the media makes an event into a "hot death story" and then via behavior contagion, more deaths, suicides, murders, and more occur in a regularly predictive cycle, as per the book The Copycat Effect (Paraview Pocket - Simon and Schuster)". I first became of Loren Coleman when from his interviews on the RU Sirius Show and The Boing Boing Get Illuminated Podcast and he's a favorite reference for Gene and Bryan from Hometown Tales. He seems to be an interesting guy with a lot of interesting ideas.

Boy hangs himself 'like Saddam' from News 24:
This is the orignal story that Coleman refers too.

Education projects on the Teen Grid - A Glimpse from The Official Linden Blog:
This is not really news in a true sense, but I find SL as an interesting environment for learning. This post talks about some resent developments in the SL Education group and a link to sign up for the SL Educators mailing list.

Boy killed unplugging Game Boy from GameSpot News:
Recently a young boy was killed while on vacation with his family. After swimming in the pool the boy was still wet when he tried to unplug his Game Boy and was subsequently electrocuted. This is a tragic story of another freak accident that could have been prevented. What worries me most is that if this boy had unplugged anything else this may never have been a news report at all.

Couple Arrested After Web Posting via Fark:
A man and woman were arrested when the man's 12 year old daughter posted about them giving her drugs and alcohol on her MySpace page. They were discovered when the mother of the girl saw the information on the girls MySpace Page. This story is troubling to me on a few levels. One parents should not be allowing their twelve-year-olds to have controlled substances. Two this girl is twelve and I'm pretty sure you have to be thirteen to join MySpace. And finally that the article talks about how many parents are afraid to confront their children. Parents shouldn't be afraid to be parents.

Study Finds High Schoolers Believe We Have Too Much Free Speech... from Snark is the New Sarcasm:
This blog post talks about an interesting study that showed up in USAToday that found that most teenagers probably do not have a good grasp of the Bill of Rights. This is not really news but it seemed to fit with the theme of the show.

I watched one of the most interesting interviews on the popular machinima podcast This Spartan Life. In episode four Damian Lacidamian(Chris Burke) interviews McKenzie Wark who teaches media and cultural studies at the New School in NYC. Wark is best known for his work studying hacker and game culture.

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