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Are they Students or are they Innovators?
Lisa Schwartz is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, working with Dr. Kris Gutierrez and a research team on the Connected Learning Research Network (CLRN). She recently completed...
Category: Educational PracticeThinking about Failure: Ways to Tell New Stories about Public Education
Maybe it's because progress reports at my high school were recently given to students, but lately I've been thinking about the role of failure in schools. The F-word, here and its corresponding...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeConnecting the K-12 Classroom to the 21st Century
Justin Reich is a fifth year doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education studying the ways in which social media support the development of 21st century skills when used in...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeTeaching Publishing as a 21st Century Literacy
For years, a common method for teaching writing in elementary and secondary school was the five paragraph essay. Lately this style of essay has fallen out of favor, for a variety of...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticePrivatizing Public Education and ‘Learning to Cheat’ as a Digital Literacy
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeMitch Resnick: The Role of Making, Tinkering, Remixing in Next-Generation Learning
Mitch Resnick is on the conference committee for the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World." As Professor of Learning Research at the MIT...
Category: Educational Practice‘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 Practice“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 Practice
