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This Political Moment: Resources for Educators in the Trump Era
Educators have long been responsible for supporting the growth and development of all young people. The job of designing engaging lessons, promoting respectful discussion, creating an inclusive classroom, and preparing youth for...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: Reimagining 21st Century Learning
Reimagining Leonardo da Vinci for the 21st century is how people will be able to cultivate “a new way of knowing” and learning in the next 80 years of rapid and constant...
Category: Educational PracticeThe number of Americans willing to serve as volunteer mentors has remained remarkably stable over the past decade — between 2 million and 2.5 million, or around 1% of the adult population...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityBuilding Community With Peer Mentors
“The more I give my teacher-power to students and encourage them to take more responsibility for their own learning, the more they show me how to redesign my ways of teaching.” —...
Category: Educational PracticeWhat Do We Mean When We Talk About 21st Century Learning?
The signifier “21st century” has become ubiquitous in educational policy discourse. A glance at most local, state, and national education plans reveals reference after reference to the need for “21st century schools”...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeTurning Teaching Over to Students
Michael Wesch’s YouTube videos gave me the courage — and the ideas — to turn more and more of the responsibility for not just learning, but teaching, over to my students. Like most great...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: Free Online Class Features Art of Being Human
On what he thought would be a cool class lecture, Kansas State University Professor Michael Wesch set out on a 41-mile run, while at the same time, controlling a video camera in...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeRescuing Student Participation Through Digital Platforms
Like many of my colleagues who think carefully about digital literacy and pedagogies, I began seriously considering the use of social media platforms in educational settings — sites like Twitter, Facebook, and...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeWhat Teachers Can Learn from Students
I remember being a college student. The problem with being a professor who remembers being a college student, is that we're probably misremembering, or our experience is different from those of our...
Category: Educational PracticeMaking Science: When Does Spaghetti Become a Light Ray?
For the past few years, we have been fortunate to work together in a scientific inquiry class. Bringing together science faculty and composition faculty makes for some lively conversations about the teaching...
Category: Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: New Book Focuses on Teacher Leadership and Connected Learning
Kira J. Baker-Doyle’s new book, “Transformative Teachers: Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World” (Harvard Education Press) offers insight on the pulse of teaching and teacher leadership today. In the first...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeThe Importance of Connected Learning Leadership
At the beginning of our conversation, Emily Vickery cautioned: “I can’t talk about being a connected educator without talking about teacher leadership.” In addition to teaching English at Pensacola (Florida) Catholic High...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeEpic Learning: Large Class as Intentional Design
Last October, I gave an Ignite talk at the Digital Media and Learning Conference called “Epic Composition.” Below, I offer a more extended look at the design and structures of my “jumbo”...
Category: Educational PracticeSafely Guiding Students on Learning Journey
I remember the first year I started teaching. It was exhilarating and confusing and led me to a mini-existential crisis of sorts that I imagine often when you walk into a class...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeEngaging Parents in After-School Programs
As part of the Leveling Up: Parenting study, a project of the Connected Learning Research Network at the DML Research Hub, I and my fellow researchers wondered: How can we help interest-driven...
Categories: Educational Practice, Research
