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A Digital Gap Between Kids and Parents
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A new study finds there is a significant disconnect between what kids do online and what their parents think they do. Is this just a new flavor of an old problem? Or is something else going on?
World Backup Day Moves Forward
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- Technology
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It’s the third year of a grass roots effort to promote healthy data backup practices for consumers and businesses. Is the message getting through?
The Dawn of National Digital Literacy Day
- 3:24 pm
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- Government
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A resolution introduced in the House of Representatives designating March 21st as National Digital Literacy Day is welcome and well-intentioned, but focuses too heavily on the issue of digital haves and have-nots.
Star-studded Cast Crusades for Coding
- 12:17 pm
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- Lifestyle
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A new video promoting computer programming classes in schools features a who’s who of technology, entertainment and sports celebrities telling stories about how coding changed their lives.
Congress Mulls a Mobile App Competition
- 6:41 pm
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- Government
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A resolution set to go before the House of Representatives next week proposes a student competition to promote STEM education, starting with mobile apps. The question is, who will be educating whom?
Skin Cancer App Study Sends a Warning
- 4:47 pm
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A new study finds that some mobile apps intended to diagnose the most life-threatening skin cancers deliver dangerously inaccurate and misleading results.

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Small Biz Seeks Cybersecurity Savvy

According to a new survey by the National Cyber Security Alliance and Symantec, more than half of America’s small businesses (53%) say it...
Comcast Upgrades Its Digital Literacy Site
PSA Campaign Takes On Digital Literacy
Breaking News: Sinking of the Britannica

Education

Crowdfunding Births a California Eco-app

Recently, a crowdfunding project that aims to produce and distribute educationally-based apps for the California Education and Environment Initiative...
Teachers Lament the Age of Distraction
California Schools Get Digital Literacy Gift
California Breaches the Textbook Fortress

Government

The Dawn of National Digital Literacy Day

At the end of February, a resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives designating March 21st as National Digital Literacy Day....
Congress Mulls a Mobile App Competition
Are You Politically Digitally Literate?
NYC Puts Its Shoulder into Digital Literacy

Healthcare

Skin Cancer App Study Sends a Warning

A recent study by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center underscores the potential danger of using consumer apps as medical diagnostic...
Digital Health Companies Feeling Robust
Handheld Health: A New Digital Literacy
Cyber Safety: A Pragmatic Prescription

Lifestyle

A Digital Gap Between Kids and Parents

A new study examining the online habits and interests of preteens, teens, and young adults suggests that many parents are not only unaware of...
Star-studded Cast Crusades for Coding
70% of Teens Are Digitally Literate Liars
Dad’s Not the Tech Whiz He Thinks He Is

Technology

World Backup Day Moves Forward

A couple of years ago, a comment string on Reddit about sloppy backup habits evolved into an effort to alert the world to the need for diligent...
Californians Fret About Data Privacy
When iPods Turn Deadly
Digital Literacy and the Thin Copper Line

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Crowdfunding Births a California Eco-app
- 28 December 2012
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A network of education outliers is using new digital media technologies and crowdfunding to put
environmental education at the fingertips of California sixth graders.

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Teachers Lament the Age of Distraction
- 2 December 2012
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Add to the list of necessary digital literacy needs the new/old skill of attention management. The teachers who instruct the most advanced American secondary school [...]

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California Schools Get Digital Literacy Gift
- 5 November 2012
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California recently became the third state to benefit from a free digital literacy curriculum supported by an innovative new model for corporate sponsorship of public education.

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Small Biz Seeks Cybersecurity Savvy
- 1 November 2012
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More than half of small businesses say they look for new employees that have online safety and security skills. And now the bad news…

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Digital Health Companies Feeling Robust
- 30 October 2012
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The world’s largest consumer electronics trade association reports dramatic growth in the number of digital health and fitness companies exhibiting at its annual trade show — a harbinger of digital health things to come.

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California Breaches the Textbook Fortress
- 5 October 2012
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California fired a warning shot recently at the heavily armored textbook industry when Governor Brown signed
two bills into law that mandate the creation and distribution of free digital textbooks.

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Participatory Media: A Literacy in Infancy
- 24 September 2012
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Digital raconteur, author and lecturer Howard Rheingold shouts out on the need for better digital participation skills in private life, education, business and government.

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ALA Releases Copyright Guidebook
- 4 September 2012
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The American Library Association has published a book that teaches librarians and educators how to avoid copyright violations and how to teach copyright etiquette.

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Are You Politically Digitally Literate?
- 21 August 2012
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Deciding which presidential candidate to support might also mean deciding which of the campaigns will have access to your personal data.

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Handheld Health: A New Digital Literacy
- 9 August 2012
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Smartphones are smart enough to deliver a wide array of digital medical apps — 13,000 and counting. But do users have the digital smarts to know how to use them?

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