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YouMedia: A New Vision for Learning
In July 2009, YouMedia launched as an ambitious attempt to re-imagine the library as a more relevant learning resource for today’s teens. Understanding that the landscape has changed how teens learn, socialize...
Category: Educational PracticeEducation: Time to experiment, learn, share, mobilize
At HASTAC, we’ve been very excited this month to be one of the “community partners” for the upcoming Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: Learning, Freedom and the Open Web taking place in Barcelona, Nov. 3-5....
Category: Educational PracticeIt’s the Learning, Not the Technology – Jessica K. Parker
Without a doubt, your 15-year-old daughter can text one-handed while holding her phone under her desk. Your 11-year-old brother leads his own World of Warcraft guild. Your fellow college students are Googling...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThis month I had the pleasure to spend time in Sweden, hosted by Patrik Svensson, Director of the HUMlab at Umea University in northern Sweden, and then with Göran Blomqvist, CEO of...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityA professor with unconventional methods, message
Digital media and learning initiatives often talk in utopian terms about a “future without books,” but don’t say that to New School faculty member Trebor Scholz. Scholz, who teaches in the Department...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeReanimating education: ideas, questions, inspirations
Editor’s note: We asked student blogger Chris Sinclair to examine all the discourse, content, and conversation in and around the recent TEDxNYED event on education reform, curate it, and comment on it...
Category: Educational PracticeIn Praise of Mo’ Better Grading
Meanwhile, back at the pedagogical ranch...You may remember that back in November I reported on my experiment in grading, combining the long tradition of contract grading with what I call “crowdsourced grading.” ...
Category: Educational Practice“Scaling John Seely Brown” and the “End of Endism”
I recently had occasion to talk on the phone with someone whose posts on education and social media I follow with interest on Twitter. ToughLoveforX (his Twitter name) is a retired printer...
Category: Educational PracticeDiana Rhoten: The Science of Reimagining Learning
“From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within...
Category: Educational PracticeTeaching and education in America has been a very hot subject in the news. In recent days, there have been lengthy pieces on “building a better teacher,” the ripple effects of a...
Category: Educational PracticeApprenticeship 2.0 Could Fuel 21st Century Learning
In a recent New Yorker piece on cookbooks, Adam Gopnik observes that "the space between learning the facts about how something is done and learning how to do it always turns out to...
Category: Educational PracticeRecommended reading, watching, listening
Global Kids' New York City-based programs address the urgent need for young people to possess leadership skills and an understanding of complex global issues to succeed in the 21st century workplace and...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice21st Century Assessment: A Critical Moment
Editor's Note: This is a re-blog of a timely post by guest bloggers Daniel Hickey and Brian Nelson. You can find the post in its original form here. The authors argue that...
Category: Educational PracticeA Thought Experiment: Why grade? Why test? What if?
Let’s try a thought experiment. Let’s assume we live in a culture where all forms of educational achievement tests have been banned and no one is allowed to assign a letter or...
Category: Educational PracticeEducating for the Future, Not the Past
Historian Robert Darnton has argued that we are currently in the fourth great Information Age in all human history. The first information revolution came with the development of writing in 4000 B.C....
Category: Educational Practice
