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The 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 PracticeDisruptive innovation. Bleeding edge. Scalable solutions. The Uber for X. Silicon Valley is routinely ridiculed for the language of technology entrepreneurship and startup culture it has dispersed. Yet, the Silicon Valley vocabulary...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeConnected Learning and Teacher Education, Part 1: Choosing Texts
In my last post, I described my rationale for developing a “New and Multimodal Literacies” course for pre-service and in-service teachers grounded in the principles of connected learning. Even though the start...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeMy Exploration of Connected Learning as a Framework for Teacher Education
I was living in Los Angeles in 2013 when the Los Angeles Unified School District began implementing its ill-fated plan to provide all of its 640,000 students with iPads. I am now...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeCursive Writing and the Importance of Teaching Skills
For most of the past decade, I have spent a week each summer reading essays by high schoolers in the Advanced Placement program. In the past few years, I’ve noticed a trend:...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeTeaching Social Studies Through Participatory Citizenship
If you’ve encountered the critical pedagogy of Paolo Freire and have only encountered it in theory, meet Shannon White, who teaches social studies “through a social justice and community-oriented lens, fostering deep...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeSelfie Pedagogy I: The Digital Humanities and Selfie Culture
Although The New York Times recently profiled the burgeoning development of “selfie scholarship,” the examination of the selfie genre in higher education is actually neither as new nor as radical as it seems....
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeRethinking the Educator’s Role Toward Distributed Teaching
Editor's note: This blog is the third in a series of four on digital learning (Part 1, Part 2). In our day-to-day work, we come across a vast range of blog entries,...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeHow to Teach Self-Directed Digital Media
The digital world has many moving parts, and bringing it into the classroom can seem overwhelming, both for the instructor, and the student. Once it gets broken down to the pieces that...
Category: Educational PracticeReformatting Traditional Literature
Young faculty who came of age at the same time that social media emerged are beginning to experiment with new containers for old curricular vintages such as English composition. Michael Stewart, lecturer...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeSpeculative Design for Emergent Learning: Taking Risks
As I look in the rear view mirror at this past semester, I marvel at the grand experiment of my #WritingRace class at Kean University that I blogged about as we embarked on...
Category: Educational Practice
