[Olpc-open] [bytesforall_readers] WIKIWORLD BOOK: Wikiworld -- Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media

[Edward Cherlin]

FYI. This is what a lot of us have been talking about with the XO
laptop, Open Digital Villages, and so on.

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
<fred at bytesforall.org> wrote:
>
> WIKIWORLD
>  Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media
>
> Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén
>  University of Tampere, Finland
>
> In the digital world of learning there is a progressive transformation from
> the institutionalized and individualized forms of learning to open learning
> and collaboration. The book provides a critical view on the use of new
> technologies and learning practices in furthering socially just futures,
> while at the same time paying critical attention to the constants, or
> "unmoved movers" of the information society development; the West and
> Capitalism. The essential issue in the Wikiworld is one of freedom – levels
> and kinds of freedom. Our message is clear: we write for the radical
> openness of education for all.
>
> DOWNLOAD THE PDF
>
> Contents
>
> Introduction
>
> 1. A Critical Paradigm of Education
>
> 2. Digital Literacy and Political Economy
>
> 3. Radical Monopolies: Schools, Computer Softwares and Social Media
>
> 4. The World Divided in Two
>
> 5. Edutopias and the Promise of Active Citizenship
>
> 6. From Social Media to Socialist Media
>
> Conclusion
>
> References
> http://wikiworld.wordpress.com/
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Edward Cherlin
End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
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