Posted by reyjunco on February 11, 2013 in
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∞ I am delighted to announce that later this semester, I will be joining the faculty of the Purdue University Libraries as an associate professor. At Purdue, I will focus on emerging technologies in education with a special focus on the first year experience. If you don’t already know about the great work happening in educational [...]
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Posted by reyjunco on December 13, 2012 in
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∞ On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published Mobile Apps for Kids in which they reported the results of their recent survey of how well mobile apps for kids conform to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requirements. The results were alarming: 59% of apps transmitted the mobile device ID (which includes among other things the app name, [...]
Tags: apps, mobile, policy, privacy, youth
Posted by reyjunco on November 19, 2012 in
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∞ Recently, Jezebel engaged in the public shaming of teens who posted racist tweets after the election. The doxxing began on the comment thread to the original “racist teens” post and then the Jezebel writer ran with the mob mentality. Now, I’m not trying to give those teens who posted the racist tweets a “pass;” however, the way [...]
Tags: bullying, cyberbullying, education, identity development, moral development, psychology, shaming, social media, students, teens, twitter, youth
Posted by reyjunco on November 8, 2012 in
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∞ Recently, Kaplan Test Prep released data from a survey showing how college admissions officers check applicant profiles in order to make admissions decisions. This isn’t a new phenomenon: since 2008, I’ve been answering questions about whether residence life, judicial affairs, and other university departments should monitor their students’ Facebook accounts. Here are some reasons why [...]
Tags: academic, admissions, college, facebook, Research, stalking, survey, university, youth
Posted by reyjunco on October 23, 2012 in
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∞ Last week, Pearson and the Babson Survey Research Group released the results of their latest survey of how higher education faculty use social media. The results are quite interesting. For instance, they found that almost 34% of the sample used some form of social media (defined as blogs/wikis, Facebook, LinkedIn, podcasts, or Twitter) for teaching purposes. It’s [...]
Tags: education, facebook, infographic, social media, teaching, twitter
Posted by reyjunco on August 31, 2012 in
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∞ I am thrilled to announce that I will be a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society for the academic year. I will continue my work with the Youth and Media Team and look forward to working with other faculty, fellows, and associates. I am especially thankful to Urs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi for their [...]
Tags: academic, Berkman Center, digital media, education, media, Research, social media, youth
Posted by reyjunco on June 14, 2012 in
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∞ Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for NBCLatino entitled Don’t trust Facebook with your children in response to Facebook’s announcement that they are considering allowing children younger than 13 to join the site. In that post, I discussed four reasons why you would want to be wary of allowing your children under 13 to join [...]
Tags: children, facebook, opinon, parenting, privacy, social media, students, technology, teens, youth
Posted by reyjunco on February 21, 2012 in
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∞ For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, this post is very different than what you are accustomed to seeing here. While I usually keep my posts professional (I’ve often joked that writing for my blog is like writing mini journal articles), this post is incredibly personal. I’ve been thinking about writing [...]
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Posted by reyjunco on February 15, 2012 in
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∞ Last week I chatted with Stuart Brown from StudentAffairs.com for the student affairs forum podcast. We spoke about: Variation in technology skills even among students who are “digital natives.” Digital inequalities and how these inequalities are reproduced throughout a student’s educational career. How digital inequalities in technology use can put students from minority racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds at [...]
Tags: college, digital divide, digital inequalities, education, facebook, interview, learning, podcast, social justice, social media, student affairs, students
Posted by reyjunco on January 30, 2012 in
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∞ Over at Wired, Tim Carmody wrote a great piece about Apple’s latest foray into the education market – digital textbooks via the iBooks 2 app. Tim hits the nail on the head in his introduction (emphasis mine): Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It’s one of the [...]
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Social Media in Higher Education
New position at Purdue University
I am delighted to announce that later this semester, I will be joining the faculty of the Purdue University Libraries as an associate professor. At Purdue, I will focus on emerging technologies in education with a special focus on the first year experience. If you don’t already know about the great work happening in educational [...]
Tags: announcements, career, libraries, Purdue, Research, university