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Reteaching Teaching: Pedagogy and Teacher Training for the Digital Age
Digital media and networks, like blackboards and post-it notes, are tools whose effectiveness depends on how they are used. Whether you call it “connected learning” or a “new culture of learning,” deploying...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeTaking Control of Digital Identity
My college freshmen, all 84, are deep into a study of digital cultures and digital literacies as we head toward Week 4 of our semester. I designed this first-year comp class so...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThe tyranny of correct answers masks a vital and essential element of learning — the practice of debugging. When you make something, however, especially something that involves code and/or electronic or mechanical...
Category: Educational PracticeCo-Learning: Modeling Cooperative-Collaborative Learning
Moving the classroom chairs in a circle had radical effects on the way we all looked at our learning: As I told my students, if we transported a warrior from 1,000 years...
Category: Educational Practice10 Connected Learning Lesson Plans from the Remake Learning Network
For me, one of the greatest joys of teaching is the chance to learn from other educators: the opportunity to peek under the hood at all the moving parts behind a dynamite...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeLearner Agency: Sharing Control of the Classroom Agenda
When I reflect on the 10 years I spent teaching at UC Berkeley and Stanford, and look back over the 127 interviews I did with innovators in digital media and learning, “learner...
Category: Educational PracticeEducating for Democracy: What We Can Do
Teresa Chin works with youth in downtown Oakland, Calif. at Youth Radio — a media production company driven by young people. One thing she works with youth on is the development of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Educational PracticeConnecting Making, Designing and Composing
In her closing keynote at FabLearn a couple years ago, Leah Buechley turned a critical eye on the maker movement. If you don’t know Buechley’s work, she is arguably one of the...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeFrom Tech Engagement to Tech Scholars
One of the reasons I was very excited to join a community college is because there is a gap in how we think about bringing digital media and technology into learning. While...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityReframing the ‘Progressive’ vs. ‘Traditionalist’ Debate in Education
One of the unfortunate side effects of the 2007-8 global economic crash has been our decade-long slide into intolerance of the unfamiliar and unknown. Rival groups trade blows over their proposed solutions...
Category: Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: Fellowship Targets Teacher Educators for Social Justice
Teacher educators interested in empowering future teachers to teach for social justice are being invited to apply to the Transformative Teacher-Educator Program (TTEP). “I developed the fellowship to provide a space and...
Category: Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: More Twist Fate Reflections
Why did Rumpelstiltskin want a first-born child? The Brothers Grimm fairytale never gave a reason. A fascinating explanation is revealed in “Rumpelstiltskin and His Husband,” a twist on the classic story written...
Category: Educational PracticeDeveloping Socially Engaged Youth Through Game Design
This summer at the Games For Change Festival, the Game Jam Guide e-book was released, sharing advice from a range of experts on how to lead game jams. One of those experts...
Categories: Edtech, Educational Practice5 Secrets to Creating an Innovative After-school Program
A little over a year ago, Mahad Ibrahim reached out to me about Connected Camps, an organization I’m leading with Katie Salen that offers online learning programs and mentorship in Minecraft. Mahad...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: Remake Learning Network Turns 10, Reaches Forward
The Remake Learning network started as an experiment in collaboration among educators, researchers, mentors and caring adults and has become a movement touching thousands of lives in southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio. As...
Categories: Educational Practice, Equity
