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Media, Youth Activism & Participatory Politics: Case Studies in a Digital Age
The growing use of digital media for social change is nourishing a dialogue about its impact on young people’s involvement in civic and political affairs. The Media Activism Participatory Politics (MAPP) project,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipHow Age Restrictions Complicate Digital Media & Learning
Digital media and learning scholars have long understood the importance of access when it comes to digital technologies. Whether we’re talking about the digital divide or the participation gap, we all recognize...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityWorthy Reads: Youth Media Production, Games & Learning, Pottermore, Web Freedom
A new report on YOUmedia, a youth-centered digital learning initiative at the Chicago Public Library, explores what it means to reimagine learning, literacies and libraries. The report takes a hard look at...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EdtechIn Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityDigital Opportunities for Civic Education
Earlier this year, Professor Joseph Kahne and a group of civic learning scholars announced a key finding from a study of student Internet usage: youth who pursue their interests online are more...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipDigital Literacies for Writing in Social Media
The following is a shortened version of a talk I gave at the "Engaging the Public" symposium held at Washington & Jefferson College on Oct. 1. According to Cathy Davidson's Now You...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLearning, Freedom, Youth, and the Web: Brazil
Freedom of speech and social mobilization is new for many countries in Latin America. Most have had closed governments and dictatorships for the last 30 years. However, because of the spread of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipFirst Person: The Book Tour in the Age of the Internet
Note: We asked tech-savvy scholar Cathy Davidson to reflect on the realities of an author's tour in the digital age. Her new book, "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of...
Category: Digital CitizenshipPrivatizing Public Education and ‘Learning to Cheat’ as a Digital Literacy
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThe Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric
We all know that teen bullying - both online and offline - has devastating consequences. Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide is a tragedy. He was tormented for being gay. He knew he was being...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityConectar Igualdad: Argentina’s Bold Move to Build an Equitable Digital Future
I recently had a chance to participate in a wonderful conference in Buenos Aires. El Congreso Internacional de Inclusión Digital Educativa (The International Conference on Digital Inclusion Education) was an event that...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityWhat do Google, Open Source Software and Digital Literacies have in Common?
Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, hit the headlines recently with an attack on the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) curriculum in UK schools. It “focuses on teaching how to use software,” he...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningRecommended Reads (August): Youth Culture, Games & Learning, Teaching 2.0
The latest fascinating report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, "Families Matter: Designing Media for a Digital Age," offers one of the first large-scale studies to explore ideas parents have about their...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLife Narratives in Social Media
The stories we tell about ourselves are immensely powerful. In a digital age, how do we use social media to construct and tell these stories? How we explain who we are, where...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Fluency: Empowering All Students
Although “digital literacy” is often a phrase associated with programs that have utopian pedagogical visions, it also can become a term attached to rigid curricular requirements, standardized testing, and models of education...
Category: Digital Citizenship
