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New Coke and Transforming American Public Schools
In April of 1985, the Coca-Cola Company announced it was changing the recipe that had been used for 99 years and would now produce a new and improved product. When New Coke came...
Category: Educational PracticeIf you agree that the best teachers help students learn how to think, Dr. Nick Sousanis’ extraordinary hybridization of words and images, “Unflattening,” ought to be one of your texts. Indeed, “unflattening” struck me...
Category: Educational PracticeMockingbirds and Thing Explaining: Knowledge Shared and Consumed in Today’s Classrooms
Let’s talk about how knowledge is valued and dispersed in schools today: last week, two stories percolated in online media that related to the kinds of texts that students will encounter while...
Category: Educational PracticeFrom Changing Education Systems to Changing Society
Whether stated explicitly or not, a core proposition of DML is that there are deep consequences to the ways that young people are learning both in and out of school and using digital...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityAmplifying the Teacher Perspective on Connected Learning
This is my third post in a series exploring my journey to develop and teach a graduate “Multimodal Literacies” course for pre-service and in-service teachers based on the connected learning framework. (Here...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeLove and Animation as Missing Ingredients: A Discussion With Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Books. Laptops. Construction paper. Text books. Desks. Bells. Backpacks. Pens. Smart board styluses. White boards. LCD projectors. Hall passes. The list goes on. The spaces of learning — whether we are discussing classrooms,...
Category: Educational PracticeMaking Learning Matter in the Digital Classroom
In a recent blog post, I discussed the noteworthy success of a web-based course launched by a research university in a high-profile initiative that emphasized online access as much as digital education....
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeOnline Literacy and the College Learner: Transfer Research and Technology
Recently, I wrote a post for DML Central about an online course that’s receiving unusually high course evaluations and is being offered by the Culture, Art, and Technology program at UC San Diego. It’s a...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeThe Boundaries of Data Collection
I want to take a moment to examine how data collection has changed for us who teach and assess students. In the digitally augmented classroom, there should be concern for both corporate...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeListening to the Field: Lessons on Multimedia and Technology in English Classrooms
While I know my DML Central blogging colleagues and I try to stay abreast of the educational, social, and economic implications of digital media on the lives of young people today, sometimes...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeThe Spread and Evolution of Learning Labs
For much of its duration, the Digital Media and Learning (DML) initiative has made a serious investment in not only reimagining learning but also remaking the kinds of institutions and places that...
Category: Educational PracticeLauna Hall’s recent essay in the Washington Post describes her misgivings and concerns about her third-grade students using ipads in the classroom. Hall describes a handful of arresting moments when her students’...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeSelfie Pedagogy IV: Diversity, Netprov and Service Learning
We profiled Mark Marino of the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab at USC on this blog five years ago in a post about innovative approaches to service learning. In 2015, we wanted to...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeBlended, Hybrid, Flipped, Online: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
This is my second post in a series exploring my journey to develop and teach a graduate “Multimodal Literacies” course for pre-service and in-service teachers based on the connected learning framework. You...
Category: Educational PracticeLoss, Trauma and the Digital Language of Empathy in Schools
My father passed away part way through my second year as a teacher. This happened in the middle of one of our school breaks and I was able to use the time...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice
