You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience.
How important is digital literacy in the classroom? When you consider that every student today must learn to be responsible for how they use technology to interact with the world around them, the answer is clear. It’s crucial. Digital Citizenship Literacy skills have always been important. Written letters transitioned to telephone skills and then internet… Read more »
“You can’t shape the world if no one is engaging with you. And humor is very effective in opening a channel of potential connection.” This was just one of many takeaways from the keynote Q&A between writer, comedian, and commentator, Baratunde Thurston, and the Director of the MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, at the inaugural… Read more »
When educator Michelle King teaches middle school students about America’s founding document, she kicks off the lesson by asking how people today break up with each other. A simple electronic text or sending a proxy to deliver the news are suggested by the eighth-grade students. Ah, but the ultimate example of severing a relationship comes… Read more »
For educators ready to connect their students to peers and other educators to collaborate on learning myriad subjects all over the world, doing so digitally is just what linkr Education offers. Gabriel Flacks, linkr’s co-founder and chief pedagogical officer, says the recently launched online platform aims to “to connect teachers and students and help them… Read more »
Matching Students, Educators for Learning Connections Through linkr
For educators ready to connect their students to peers and other educators to collaborate on learning myriad subjects all over the world, doing so digitally is just what linkr Education offers. Gabriel...
Categories: Edtech, FeaturedConnecting Rural Educators: Professional Development Goes Digital
Many educators in our DML network will be familiar with The National Writing Project (NWP), a 45-year-old professional development network, whose focus is on improving the teaching of writing across all grade...
Categories: Educational Practice, FeaturedTextransformations: Interactive Art Practice as Connected Learning
We find ourselves in a cultural moment that is particularly fraught with the impulse for instant gratification as online social networks have us “plugged in” and busy narrating our lives online. So...
Categories: Connected Learning, FeaturedThe Emergence of the ESU Digital Warriors
In the early weeks of the fall semester of 2017, we developed a series of events that provided students opportunities to create Esports activities that led to a universitywide showcase competition. We...
Categories: Connected Learning, Featured, New TrendsScientists Seek Genetic Data to Personalize Education
Researchers have begun to propose using genetic data from students to personalize education. Bringing genetics into education is highly controversial. It raises significant concerns about biological discrimination and rekindles long debates about...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsConnected Learning and 21st Century English Teacher Education
Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs — what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational Practice
