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The Immune System-Brain Connection as a Metaphor for Antivirus Programs and Computers Imagining New Possibilities
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By Mital on May 3rd, 2011
  1. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. antivirus
  2. brain
  3. immune system
  4. TYBI

This is Karna Mital, a current Duke undergraduate in Cathy Davidson's "This is Your Brain on the Internet" class. Through our class, I heard about...
All We Really Need is Twitter
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By Buck on May 2nd, 2011
  1. Government & Politics
  2. Social Networks & Social Media
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. obama
  2. Osama Bin Laden
  3. twitter
  4. twitter revolution
  5. TYBI

As I begin to the write this, essentially the entire world has just found out the Osama Bin Laden is dead. It is 10:57, and President Obama was...
Who needs to date anymore?
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By Buck on Apr 12th, 2011
  1. Social Networks & Social Media
  2. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. Cloud Girlfriend
  2. Facebook
  3. online dating
  4. relationships
  5. TYBI

I've always known that people can pretend. You can pretend your name is something it's not. You can pretend you're from a place you're not. You...
"The role of self in understanding other minds" and the digital age
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By Dixit on Apr 8th, 2011
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. social neuroscience
  2. This Is Your Brain on the Internet
  3. TYBI

As part of the Emerging Themes of Social Neuroscience series, Jason Mitchell of Harvard University gave a presentation at Duke University on 3/17/...
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Midterm Exam as Open Innovation Challenge?
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By Davidson on Feb 23rd, 2011
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Collaboration
  3. Open Source, Open Access & Open Web
  4. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. collaboration
  2. Crowdsourced Grading
  3. Drumbeat
  4. exams
  5. Literacy21
  6. Mozilla
  7. TYBI

Next Wednesday, my students in "This Is Your Brain on the Internet" and "21st Century Literacies" will be taking the midterm exam of their lives....
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Students Left To Their Own Devices . . . Again!
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By Davidson on Feb 11th, 2011
  1. Academia
  2. Collaboration
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. Brain on the Internet
  2. collaboration
  3. DiVE
  4. peer leading
  5. students
  6. TYBI

One point of "This Is Your Brain on the Internet," my peer-led, peer-taught, class is to give pairs of students, each week, the opportunity to...
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This Is Your Brain on the Internet: Syllabus, Contract, Schedule
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By Davidson on Jan 18th, 2011
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Higher Education
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. schedule
  2. syllabus
  3. This Is Your Brain on the Internet
  4. TYBI

Here is the full syllabus, schedule, and grading contract for this year's seminar, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet."  It promises to be a...
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Should Class Blogs Be Private or Public?
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By Davidson on Dec 15th, 2010
  1. Academia
  2. Open Source, Open Access & Open Web
  3. Legal, Licensing & Copyright
  4. Social Networks & Social Media
  5. Privacy
  6. Pedagogy & Teaching
  7. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. audience
  2. blogs
  3. flw
  4. intellectual property
  5. learning
  6. open access
  7. pedagogy
  8. privacy
  9. public
  10. TCL
  11. TYBI

Every time I write up my syllabi for an upcoming course, I revisit the question of whether the blogs and projects my students produce as...
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