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Henry Jenkins on Participatory Media in a Networked Era, Part 2
This is the second installment of a two-part interview with Henry Jenkins, co-author with Mizuko Ito and danah boyd of the brilliant new book, “Participatory Culture in a Networked Era.” In the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipHenry Jenkins on Participatory Media in a Networked Era, Part 1
You are probably reading this because you are interested in the use of digital media in learning. My single strongest recommendation to you: if you want the best and latest evidence-based, authoritative,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDeliberate Practice and Digital Literacies
There are some phrases — “communities of practice” and “close reading” spring to mind — that we as educators tend to use automatically. It’s never just an “online community” or “reading.” Sometimes,...
Category: Digital Citizenship#BoycottStarwarsVII, Racism and Classroom Responsibility
I don’t want to be “that guy,” but we need to talk about “Star Wars,” race, class, gender, and sexuality today. Apologies in advance. In particular, we need to talk about who gets to...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityTaking Control of Your Digital Identity
A friend told me I was “going rogue” when I leased a slice of off-campus server to host The Social Media Classroom for my UC Berkeley and Stanford courses. The social affordances...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSelfie Pedagogy III: Networked Spaces, Slut Shaming and Putting Selfies in Dialogue with Theory
Those looking for a top authority on how to teach effectively with selfies would be wise to put Terri Senft of New York University at the top of any list. Senft founded two...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityA Call for Increased Critical Media Literacy in Schools
The racial profiling and racist treatment that followed Ahmed Mohamed’s clock, and the intense media punditry that buzzed and died out in typical fashion highlighted many powerful lessons for young people. And,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquitySelfie Pedagogy II: Internet Identity and Selfie Practices
As part of a series of blog postings exploring teaching and learning with selfies, it was logical to go next to Alice E. Marwick, Fordham professor and author of "Status Update: Celebrity,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipTeaching Social Studies Through Participatory Citizenship
If you’ve encountered the critical pedagogy of Paolo Freire and have only encountered it in theory, meet Shannon White, who teaches social studies “through a social justice and community-oriented lens, fostering deep...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeSelfie Pedagogy I: The Digital Humanities and Selfie Culture
Although The New York Times recently profiled the burgeoning development of “selfie scholarship,” the examination of the selfie genre in higher education is actually neither as new nor as radical as it seems....
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeDefining Digital Media Across Disciplines
After my last post on designing a course into digital media, I’ve been doing a lot of reflection and work trying to figure out best practices and approaches for defining digital media...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Value of Social Media and Counternarratives
As I write these words, St. Louis County has just declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of protests marking the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death at...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipBook Lacks Digital Reading Details
The goal of “Words Onscreen,” Naomi S. Baron’s new book, is to account for the ways that “digital reading is reshaping our understanding of what it means to read” (p. xii). Baron...
Category: Digital CitizenshipAvengers, Privilege and Internet Nerdrage
I want to complain for a minute about a certain Hollywood superhero blockbuster. Then, I want to complain for a minute about people who complain about superhero blockbusters on the Internet. Hypocrite?...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThe Digital Imagination of Government
In the UK, the last year or so has seen a massive proliferation of interest in digital education right across the spectrum of the public, private and civil society sectors. Digital education...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship
