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Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms
When Frederick J. Kelly invented the Kansas Silent Reading Test, now known as the “multiple-choice test” or the “bubble test,” he was looking for an efficient way to pass students through the...
Category: Digital LearningEditor’s Note: This evening Howard will deliver the 2011 Regents’ Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley. His topic: the transformative power of social media and peer learning. Here, in a continuing...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeTeaching Art in a Connected World: the Possibilities
Aaron Knochel is an assistant professor at SUNY New Paltz, teaching upper division courses in curriculum theory and practice and "technology in the art classroom" in the university’s Art Education program. This...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeWikirriculum: The Promises and Politics of an Open Source Curriculum
The idea of an “open source curriculum” has until now seemed entirely at odds with the political standardization and prescription of the curriculum. Are there any signs that curriculum will catch up...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeSchool 3.0: Design. Create. Learn. Repeat.
Karen Brennan is a PhD student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, where she is a member of the Scratch Team, a group responsible for creating and developing...
Category: Digital LearningSteve Hargadon: Reimagining Education as Networked, Participatory, Social, Global
Steve Hargadon is the Charlie Rose of technology, learning and teaching. On his website, the Future of Education, he has interviewed everyone: from Clay Shirky to Diane Ravitch to Ken Robinson to...
Category: Digital LearningDemocratizing Learning Innovation
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a...
Category: Digital LearningDigital Media & Learning Conference 2012: Learning Innovations in a Connected World
The 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, it's being announced today, will explore the richer, deeper learning enabled by the emergence of Web-enabled, mobile-based platforms that promote new models of peer-to-peer learning,...
Category: Digital Learning‘How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn’
Duke University’s Cathy Davidson has staked out a reputation as a creative intellectual force committed to transforming the industrial model of education for the digital age. In 2010, President Obama nominated her...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeAcross the U.S., students are returning to their schools and college campuses. It also appears to be the beginning of a mini-revolution in the way digital media and learning are seen to...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeWhat do Google, Open Source Software and Digital Literacies have in Common?
Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, hit the headlines recently with an attack on the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) curriculum in UK schools. It “focuses on teaching how to use software,” he...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningDigital Media, Learning, and the Future
New research findings from a global study of education systems suggest that the promise of a hi-tech, high-skills, high-wage future for kids is a fantasy. Does digital media and learning offer a...
Category: Digital LearningLearning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online
This is a golden age for motivated self-learners, given the availability of open educational resources - from MIT's OpenCourseWare, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and YouTube EDU to the Khan Academy and Apple's iTunes U,...
Category: Digital LearningDigital 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 LearningHow 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 Learning
