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Childhood and the Pursuit of Meaning in Today’s Connected World
Most adults reckon they know about children because they were one once. This is a strange kind of qualification. First of all, there is a tendency to universalize childhood as if the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Construction of Civic Identities in Pop Culture
“I said, ‘Well daddy don’t you know that things go in cycles.’ ” — “Excursions,” A Tribe Called Quest A fever dream in 15 steps. This past weekend, Ukrainian singer Jamala won the...
Category: Digital Citizenship3 Types of EdTech Baggage: Toolsets, Mindsets, Skillsets
Anyone with a background in technology integration will, of course, be familiar with the diffusion of innovation curve. This is a method to explain the way that different groups of people will...
Category: Digital CitizenshipAir-B-N-Me: Self Representation in the Digital Age
Is your real life anything like your online version of it? How have open networks and social media shaped our perceptions of both ourselves and others? The politics of representation in the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipReassessing Collective Intelligence
“@MichelleFields you are totally delusional”: Collective intelligence in 2016 Back in 2005, Tim O’Reilly, publisher and technology pundit, posted an essay describing “Web 2.0.” In it, O’Reilly attempted to describe what had...
Category: Digital CitizenshipIt’s commonly acknowledged that writing is a social act. What does it mean to write online? When we write in the digital age, we are writing to share and to connect. But,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipFrom Intersections to Encounters: What the University Can Stand For
#StandWithJNU Politics of Hope is a dreadful thing. The cruel algebra of necessity kicks in, when you are contemplating the possibilities of the future — not possibilities for the future, but of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipFrom Cross-roads to Intersections: Hashtags for the Future of Learning
Note: This is the first of a four-part series that introduces three hashtags that seek to punctuate and puncture the techno-utopian policies and social perceptions of the forms, formats and functions of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipOnline Literacy and the College Learner: Transfer Research and Technology
Recently, I wrote a post for DML Central about an online course that’s receiving unusually high course evaluations and is being offered by the Culture, Art, and Technology program at UC San Diego. It’s a...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThe Boundaries of Data Collection
I want to take a moment to examine how data collection has changed for us who teach and assess students. In the digitally augmented classroom, there should be concern for both corporate...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice#SlaveryWithASmile: How Twitter Can Raise Social Consciousness
I love Twitter. I love Twitter because it makes silly questions about dog pants go so viral that the President feels the need to weigh in with his opinion. I love Twitter...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLearning The Terms of Digital Literacy
Often when we talk about digital literacy, we are speaking about giving students the tools they need to be successful in a digitally-augmented world. In learning digital literacy, students also learn the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipHow to Answer John Gardner’s Challenge
John W. Gardner (1912-2001, no relation) was the most impressive public citizen of my time. Trained as a psychologist, president of the Carnegie Foundation at an early age, and a dedicated public...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipThe Closed Loop of Digital Literacy Debate
Here's a quiz for you, reader. The following quotes were written about popular books on the effect of technology on our behavior and culture. One was written in the late 1990s and...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLoss, Trauma and the Digital Language of Empathy in Schools
My father passed away part way through my second year as a teacher. This happened in the middle of one of our school breaks and I was able to use the time...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice
