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In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, media expert George Siemens shares pointers and resources to help you make sense of how new media technologies are changing the world around you.

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Inside this Media Literacy digest:

• How Do Organizations Respond To Emerging Technologies? - Businesses, schools, and universities are having difficulty responding to emerging technologies.
• Radicalization Of Educational Reform - David Wiley is concerned that the radicals are taking over discussions of educational reform.
• Virtual Private Cloud - Amazon has announced a new service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Even Revolutionaries Conserve - The concept revolutionaries as conservators is reflected in many aspects of society.
• State Of Learning Management Systems In Higher Education - Michael Feldstein links to a thorough review of learning management systems in higher education: presentation (webex) and slides (.pdf).
• “Good” Peer Review - In the field of emerging technologies, too many reviewers are not current and as a consequence should not be reviewing papers.
• Letting Networks Do What They Do Well - It is a simple process: collect list of organizations, sort list by location and industry similarity, and port into network analysis tool.
• Multitasking - It is difficult to accept research evidence in the face of personal observation

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