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Multiliteracies and Designing Learning Futures
Multiliteracies is an area of interest for me and my classroom, and I am hoping to use this post for dialogue and collective theory-building. But first, I want to talk briefly about...
Category: Digital CitizenshipBesides being a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, Roger Ebert is a serious reader, and in a recent post on his blog, he blasts a "retelling" of The Great Gatsby that dumbs...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWhat do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
The recent launch of Google+, a new social network, has caused ripples in many different online spaces. From talk of it being a ‘Facebook killer’ because of its enhanced privacy settings to...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSearch Personalization and Digital Literacy
The near total dominance of computer search over our information gathering has presented our culture with an interesting (and possibly unique) problem in the history of information management: what you see when...
Category: Digital CitizenshipFour Questions about Civic Media
The civic media field is often better defined by example than in abstractions. The field is so nascent and fluid that any comprehensive, conceptual definition will likely miss key aspects of the...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipDigital Learning and the Arab Spring
As revolution and revolt spreads across the Arab world, Americans often see social networking sites and online video as playing a starring role. Whether it is testimony about police brutality or jubilation...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningA Teenager Taps Social Media to Help Change his Struggling Community
"Intense shootings happening at this moment in the Complexo do Alemao!" tweeted teenager Rene Silva on Nov. 9, 2010. Using his personal Twitter account (@Rene_Silva_RJ) and the Twitter account of a newspaper...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, EquityRethinking the “New” in “New Media”
I’m not a label person. Really, I usually don’t care what we call something. However, sometimes the words we call the tools and practices of teachers get in the way of acceptance,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe globalization of digital media has put pressure on education systems worldwide to be reformed. The emphasis is on schooling that will promote the cosmopolitan identities of globalized digital citizens. But what...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeShare, Grow, Do: The Potential of Digital Age Learning
The National Writing Project has launched a fantastic new web site, Digital Is, to build a community amongst educators exploring how the digital age is changing how we write, share, collaborate, publish...
Category: Digital CitizenshipHow does Digital Media impact Youth Political and Civic Engagement?
There’s a lot of conversation about young people’s use of digital media and how it impacts their engagement -- or lack of engagement -- in civic affairs and politics, but not a...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipGoing Interactive in a Big Way: How Can We Transform the Lecture Class?
This is the last in a three-part “end of term” series of blog posts on “Doing Better by Gen Y.” In the first post, one of my students spoke about the paucity...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeHow to Make a Million Dollars, One Facebook Class at a Time
The fall of 2007 was, in many ways, a simpler time: the most popular social network in the United States was an Los Angeles-based outfit called Myspace; Apple had just released an...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningWhat Should Civic Learning Look Like in an Age of Social and Technological Change?
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and her iCivics team recently convened a thought provoking conference, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age. In partnership with the Aspen Institute, Georgetown Law,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipWhat Are Digital Literacies? Let’s Ask the Students
Two weeks ago I blogged on DML Central on “Doing Better by Generation Y” and the tendency for pundits to criticize Gen Y’s absorption with new media, critique how little they know,...
Category: Digital Citizenship
