How Collaboration Empowers Learning
“I learned more on Twitter in six months than in two years of graduate school” is the epigraph of the first chapter of Tom Whitby’s book (co-authored with Steven W. Anderson), "The...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Citizenship
Engaging Students in Critical Social Media Analysis Through Debate
As part of the national celebration of Digital Learning Day last month, I had the opportunity to moderate an online debate between two teams of high school students from opposite ends of California about...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThe Nuts and Bolts of Digital Civic Imagination
I grew up in Oakland when the Black Panthers were setting up free lunches and breakfasts for me and my classmates in Oakland public schools and carrying guns to defend themselves and...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipTeaching Urban Digital Literacy Outside School, Part 2
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series highlighting different programs that teach digital literacy outside of school. Doctoral candidate Eunsong Kim has become an expert on Twitter ethics involving communities of color who...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThe family computer recently stopped working. This wouldn’t be the end of the world normally, however, my oldest son’s second-grade classroom implemented a new homework policy. Instead of having homework on paper,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeDefining a Participatory Critical Literacy
The screen in the room offered the expected prompt: “What is your definition of critical literacy?”The familiar scratching of pen to paper could be heard throughout the auditorium as ideas were being...
Category: Digital CitizenshipEditor's note: The following post is a summary of a provocation delivered at the Umeå University HUMlab's "Genres of Knowledge Production" conference on Dec. 10, 2014. (Watch video, starting at 14:18)1. PlatformsThat...
Category: Digital CitizenshipMobile Money, Financial Literacy and Learning Through Digital Media
The fact that a cellular telephone can transmit the value of a particular currency from one party to another may be increasingly obvious, given the rise of specialized digital money services in...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityFerguson, Social Media and Educational Dialogue
As St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch stepped to the microphone on the evening of Nov. 24 to announce the grand jury’s decision about the fate of Darren Wilson, the police officer...
Category: Digital CitizenshipRevolution: Thank You, Brother Mike
It was more than 10 years ago that I first met Brother Mike, before the launch of our Digital Media and Learning initiative and before the birth of the Digital Youth Network program....
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeA Brief History of Web Literacy and its Future Potential
"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future." — George Orwell Part of history is telling stories. It's about privileging some type of...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWriting in Libraries: Processes and Pathways to Inquiry and Learning
Earlier this year, I wrote about the possibilities for libraries that embrace writing as the literacy of the masses and how libraries might function as more powerful sponsors of literacy if they...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeIf you’re anything like hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people around the world, one of the first things you do in the morning is check your social media feeds. These...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Disappearing Selfie, Part 3
This is the third and last of a three-blog series exploring the selfie as a digital object and the ways in which it posits challenges for us to understand and analyse it...
Category: Digital CitizenshipRecasting the Bullying Narrative
Youth media production is often seen as an admirable way to help underserved K-12 students find voices in their communities. With the advent of more accessible multimedia technologies and the means for...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity
