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Rethinking the ‘Race Between Education and Technology’ Thesis
This year my research team has been pouring over qualitative data that we collected over a year-and-half period from Freeway High School (previously referred to as Texas City High School in earlier...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityHow Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin...
Category: EquityExpanding Women’s Participation for Wikipedia in India: Access to Knowledge
In the past DMLcentral has covered efforts to recruit more women to edit Wikipedia and to produce more women’s studies content. As a blogger, I have presented this story as a relatively...
Category: EquityHuman Rights and Social Media in India: Blank Noise
On a recent visit to Sarai, a Delhi research think tank housed in the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, I met a number of female university students who described participating...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityReclaim Open Learning Symposium Keynote: “Let the Learning Drive the Technology”
Editor's note: This is a timely curation and storification of the opening session of Reclaim Open Learning by guest blogger Luka Carfagna that we wanted to share (Image credit: Andrew Forgrave, Flickr)[<a...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityClasses recently began in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is the second largest school district in the country, a place where the best practices of digital media and learning face...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityUsing Social Media for Women’s Rights: Breakthrough
The horrific Delhi gang rape case in which a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was murdered as a result of a grotesque sexual assault brought tens of thousands of protesters into the streets of...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquitySocial Media: Brazil’s Indigenous Tribes Go Online in their Struggle To Be Heard
Brazil has several marginalized groups that often don't have a voice in government decision-making and are invisible to the majority of the country’s population. One such group, the country’s indigenous tribes, must...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquitySummer Reading: The Privilege, Petulance, and Passion of Steve Jobs
Like many, I spent part of my summer catching up on books I've been meaning to read and haven't committed the time to do so during the rest of the year. Along...
Category: EquityBoth Sides of the Screen: Museums Seeking Balance in a Digital Age
Museums, like many public sites of informal learning, are struggling to understand the roles digital media can play within their walls. In short, are they an obstacle to engagement or a new...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityBig Data, People’s Lives, and the Importance of Openness
Openness has become the buzzword for everything in India right now. From the new kids on the block riding the wave of Digital Humanities investing in infrastructure of open knowledge initiatives to...
Category: EquityEnacting Social Change in a Digital Age: An International Case Study
In recent years, international development organizations have started incorporating digital media programming in an effort to merge storytelling and popular media into civic engagement and to bring young people together across national...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, EquityPoorly Educated and Poorly Connected: The Hidden Realities of Innovation Hubs
When President Barack Obama decided to kick off his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tours” in Austin it highlighted once again the city’s reputation as a growth sector in the nation’s creative...
Category: EquityThoughts on Pew’s Latest Report on Teens: Notable Findings on Race and Privacy
Yesterday, Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about “Teens, Social Media, and Privacy.” As a researcher who’s been in the trenches on these topics for a...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityA Student-driven, Afterschool Technology Club: When Reality and Policy Collide
Taking advantage of the online world's ability to help youth develop knowledge, expertise, skills and important new literacies involves risks, but how much? Some researchers and authors such as Lenore Skenazy, Sonia...
Categories: Educational Practice, Equity
