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Participation in individual or team-based sports provides everyone with the opportunity to learn and practice humanitarian attitudes and skills necessary for global citizenship. Sports by their nature present no economic, status, nationality, gender, or cultural barriers for participation. Sports facilitate personal health and wellness and a peaceful, diverse, tolerant, and understanding world for...
Virtual worlds bleed into the physical world in increasingly interesting ways. This paper examines developing an in world island designed to prepare avatars for responsible global citizenship. It examines the unconstrained nature of these types of citizens; how trust and rights are beginning to evolve and be enforced in this environment; and how we might begin to prepare avatars to become good citizens...
In this introductory column, the author explores some issues regarding the definition of "digital citizenship," focusing on the associated rights and responsibilities, the value to be gained from citizenship, and the problems caused by conflict.
While we perform our daily tasks we reinterpret space and personalize it, according to tactics which reveal significant information about ourselves. We are now able to fill and stratify space/time with digital information layers, completely wrapping cities in a membrane of information and of opportunities for interaction and communication. Mobile devices, smartphones, wearables, digital tags, near...
In Brazil, most Deaf children (approximately 90%) are born into non-Deaf families. These children suffer prejudice in social situations and within their own families. They have few chances to get exposed to Sign Language (SL), the natural language of the Deaf, thus being deprived of adequate language acquisition and age-appropriate intellectual development. Libras, the Brazilian Sign Language is a...
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