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Here’s a rundown of some of the more promising names in child-labor media. Some of the names will probably look familiar to you, since these kids are famous. Far more famous than most media hacks. In other words, they’re coming for your job, loudly.

via Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear.

‘meta-reading’. It’s not about individual brands. They are fully aware of all the back-stories of all the stories they’re getting,” he says.

It’s a ‘degree of sophistication,’ he said, ‘which reads the interests behind the news as an integral part of the news’.

“This is something I had to learn. They’re constantly reading two things: what the information is, and who’s saying it – and it’s completely part of the story. Just as when I was doing history A-Level [you were taught to ask] ‘which is the source, who’s the source, why are they saying it?’”

“They get it. I think they are learning it as they are consuming it.”

via ‘Meta-reading’: the generational differences in consuming news | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog.

Includes a cryptic chart, but suggests where we’ve been and where we are going as far as our interactions with Internet go.

via Mapping the Current Web Transition – ReadWriteWeb.

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Okay, I have been known to write about the “big ass table” in sarcastic posts. I was set to let loose on it again, but here is an elementary teacher who has used the device in a literacy project. When the table is used with thought and appropriately, it demonstrates that the media is the message. The process of working with the archival materials is transformed into a new kind of learning experience because of the interaction of content with medium.

Students viewed and organized archival videos and images of Victorian England on the SMART table, and Tom Barrett, the teacher who is blogging about using the table observes, “It is the blurring of that physical and digital space that I am intrigued with. The children passed each other video footage.”

via SMART Table in my Classroom – Pass Me That Video | Space for me to explore.

He continues, “It is the heightened sense of access and of sharing the digital imagery, combined with the fluid resize, rotate and placement controls you have that makes it a powerful learning tool.”

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ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout.

From pro to am, journalist to citizen journalist, here is a resource from the nonprofit ProPublica that puts transparency into the bailout process. From a widget that lets you see if your bank is getting money, to a timeline showing how got where we are now, to a searchable database of recipients of the aid. There is more. Head over, bookmark the site, and get busy checking to see if yours