Across 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...
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“Digital Is” Website Accelerates Teacher-to-Teacher Learning and Collaboration
Over the course of four days earlier this summer at a lush retreat in Seattle, I had the opportunity to write and engage with some of the most exciting teachers I’ve been...
Category: Educational PracticeWe’re a district InnovationLab in Loveland, Colorado, where students have crafted, and just completed year one, of a four-year plan of disruption to redefine school. Based on findings that learning at its...
Category: Educational PracticeThe globalization of digital media has put pressure on education systems worldwide to be reformed. The emphasis is on schooling that will promote the cosmopolitan identities of globalized digital citizens. But what...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeP2PU: Learning for Everyone, by Everyone, about almost Anything
Meet Philipp Schmidt, co-founder and executive director of Peer to Peer University, an emerging, Web-based global learning community. At P2PU, study groups form and gather online to learn a particular topic. They...
Category: Educational PracticeGoing Interactive in a Big Way: How Can We Transform the Lecture Class?
This is the last in a three-part “end of term” series of blog posts on “Doing Better by Gen Y.” In the first post, one of my students spoke about the paucity...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeGetting Serious About Reimagining Learning in the Digital Age
I want to have a conversation about what it’s going to take to turn schools around and why digital media -- as it’s currently being used -- isn’t yet helping. I’m going...
Category: Educational PracticeHappiness, Learning, and Technology: Why “Affective” Schools are the New “Effective” Schools
What are the connections between emotional education and digital media and learning? Faced with a global economic recession, civic unrest, and major environmental catastrophe, governments around the world are now obsessed with...
Category: Educational PracticeWikirriculum: Curriculum in the Digital Age
Developing a school curriculum is a complex act of creative design. Add networked participatory media to the mix and curriculum design gets even more complicated. So, from the perspective of digital media...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeThere are as many reasons to teach as there are reasons to learn. One reason item-response testing (the twentieth-century’s dominant method of testing) is so deficient is that it tends to reduce...
Category: Educational PracticeMozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning
What if the same energy, ideals, organizational effectiveness, global army of volunteers and code wizardry that created the Firefox web browser could be applied to learning and education? Don't forget that the...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityDisrupting Class: A New Age for Learning
Book review: one in an occasional series on works that aspire to reimagine learning in the information age.Let’s start with the shocking news that Disrupting Class authors Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticePeer Learning Isn’t Easy (But Some Days It’s Amazing)
I’m not teaching a class this term. I’m doing something lots harder. I am making a collaborative, peer-led experience available to students. There are six of them: three graduate students, two undergraduate...
Category: Educational PracticeStudent-led Curriculum: Demanding, Digital, Compelling
At November’s University of California Institute for Research in the Arts conference, the emphasis was on college courses that couldn’t be planned out according to set syllabi and fixed course objectives, because...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeHow Learning Spaces Reflect Our View of Children
Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of...
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