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8.4% of students in K12 education have special needs, but they're typically not represented in digital media and learning work. #dml2015
The Wacker Manual: "every student is a city planner." #dml2015
The Wacker Manual helped rebuild Chicago after the great fire by saying that every student should be a good steward of their city. #dml2015
Interesting: libraries evolving into maker spaces continues their longstanding interest in providing public educational resources. #dml2015
How to help homeless youth? "Media can educate and build empathy, which can influence politicians." #dml2015
Facing History and Ourselves looks like a great organization: https://www.facinghistory.org #dml2015
"I will not go along with the crowd" is civic engagement too. YES. Non-conformity when It matters is so important. #dml2015
In a world where we are all publishing online, "we are the media". YES. #dml2015
Positive reviews and community comments on fan fiction gave writers more confidence in their academic lives, too. #dml2015
"Fan fiction was what got me into writing in the first place." Make it fun, and you bring down psychological barriers. #dml2015
Any session that asks me to recognize the Doctor Who theme tune - and season! - is a-ok by me. (I got it right, obvs.) #dml2015
Sitting in a session about distributed mentoring in fan fiction communities. Really interesting to me. #dml2015
A great example of an institution getting on top of anonymous abuse on its campus: http://gimletmedia.com/episode/9-yik-yak/ #dml2015
If you'd like to learn more about any of the connected learning tools from this morning's session: http://connectedlearning.tools #dml2015
Enabling people to be homesteaders rather than digital sharecroppers is one of the tenets of the #indieweb: http://indiewebcamp.com #dml2015
If you'd like to clean up your Twitter feed and remove abuse, this tool may help: https://blocktogether.org/ #dml2015
"We have to reimagine what a tech worker looks like [...] so people are open to seeing a person of color." - @mariateresa1 #dml2015
