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Addressing Race, Inequity Issues Through Social Media Power
The fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. began dominating the national headlines instantly. One of the biggest factors, as Newsweek's Elijah Wolfson points out, was the use of social media by...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityAddressing Trust Challenges in Connected Learning
Any learning is inherently risky. The second we enter spaces to learn stuff, we are acknowledging that there are things we don’t know and that we trust the environment, place and people...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital CitizenshipScaffolding Web Literacy Through Learning Pathways
Learning is messy. It starts. It stops. It's prismatic and elusive. Learners make progress, regress and then make giant leaps forward in understanding and ability. Some concepts and skills come quickly and easily, while...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EdtechTeaching Critical Thinking in Age of Digital Credulity
By the end of 2014, more than 3 billion people will have access to the Internet, which means that they (we) have the power to ask any question at any time and...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Selfish Selfie and Simulation, Part 2
Random autobiographical story: When in school, as part of our elocution classes, we had a dragon for a teacher, who used to prowl around with a menacing looking wooden measuring scale, as...
Category: Digital CitizenshipTrust, Privacy and Everyday Life
I recently realized that it was time to move. My oldest son is 7 and he’d learned that “everything was on the Internet’ from a schoolmate, and wanted to see if our...
Category: Digital CitizenshipRapid Tech Change Requires Rebranding to Recruit Talent
A few months ago, I met the city of Austin’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and we soon discovered that we had several mutual interests, especially related to young people, technology, and a...
Category: Digital CitizenshipI’ve written before about civic education initiatives intended to help model systems of political deliberation in the United States, but with my first trip to Latin America in April for the Humanities,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipThe Selfie and the Self: Part 1 – Hiding and Revealing
The inherent tension in the world of the social web is between hiding and revealing. In the post-Snowden era that we live in, there is a collective public anxiety about how much...
Category: Digital CitizenshipReclaiming the Web for the Next Generation
Around this time last year, thanks to the whistleblower Edward Snowden, U.S. citizens found out just how little online privacy they have. For those outside the U.S., the revelations were potentially even...
Category: Digital CitizenshipInnovators, Not Hackers: Stop Portraying Youth as Digital Deviants
Why is it that when young people use technology on adult terms, they are praised as 21st century learners, but when they use technology on their OWN terms, they are castigated as...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityDuring the past week, I have been busy. I know this because my phone tells me so. Each night, before I go to bed, I check my schedule for the next day —...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital-Age Civics: Media Makes a Difference
If you caught Joe Kahne’s recent post, you’ll know something about a concept that’s also central to my latest mini-book. As a member of the MacArthur Foundation-backed research network Joe chairs, I’m...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSelfies, Snapchat and Distance Learning
Selfies have been in the news a lot lately, particularly after the Oxford English Dictionary declared “selfie” to be the word of the year for 2013. During the last month I have...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningNetworks: What You Don’t See is What You (for)Get
When I start thinking about DML (digital media and learning) and other such “networks” that I am plugged into, I often get a little confused about what to call them. Are we...
Category: Digital Citizenship
