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Avenging ‘Making’ For All: Challenging Iron Man
With Iron Man 3 raking in millions and marking the official start of summer blockbusters, it is thrilling to recognize that moviegoers are largely staring at a screen enraptured with Hollywood’s most...
Category: EquityDesign Thinking and Diversity: A Professional Development Case Study
What do a New York public school, the Howard County Public School system in Maryland, and a small private K-8 school in California all have in common? Each is re-conceptualizing the standard...
Category: EquityPhiladelphia: A Case Study on the Importance of Internet Access in Public Spaces
We live in a world today where broadband access is becoming increasingly necessary for attaining jobs, expanding innovation and remaining globally competitive. Even in an iconic city like Philadelphia many residents are...
Category: EquityChildren and Computers in Paraguay: Studying What Works and What Doesn’t
Can technology really transform education in developing countries? That was the goal of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child, but since its founding in 2005, the organization has been the subject of...
Category: EquityAre We in Danger of Losing Sight of Urban Schools and their Libraries?
The rhetoric around libraries today is largely filled with enthusiasm in the digital media and learning world. And it probably should be: YOUmedia, makerspaces, and expanding digital opportunities for young people to...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityRemembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the Fight
I encountered the Aaron Swartz memorial the other day that helps ‘liberate’ a randomly selected article from JSTOR, as an act of civil disobedience, to commemorate both the legacy that Swartz leaves...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, EquityTo Hasten Equity…Scale the Individual
Public education could be the most accelerating venue for social change. Rather than waiting for any of the incredible [past, current and ongoing] innovations in redefining public education to scale, imagine we...
Category: EquityLearning and the Emerging Science of Behavior Change, aka ‘Nudging’
The language of learning today is full of references to “softness” and “openness.” Software, soft skills, soft performance, and the softening up of school knowledge go hand-in-hand with open source, open access...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityFrom Theory to Design: Exploring the Power & Potential of ‘Connected Learning,’ Part Two
One of the more compelling aspects of connected learning is the opportunity for students to create personalized learning pathways that establish important links across the different nodes in their learning ecology. I...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityFacebook, Public Education and Equity: A 13-year-old Fights for a “Better School”
Last April, 9-year-old Martha Payne created a blog to discuss the quality of the food served in her school called "Never Seconds." In the blog, she discussed the quality (and quantity) of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Equity‘The Virtual Revolution’: Argentina
I recently returned to the UK from a trip to Argentina. I had been invited to speak about The Virtual Revolution, the television series I presented for BBC2 2010 by the OSDE...
Category: EquityBe.App: Towards Facilitating Curiosity
Many people are talking about (and creating) better ways to do public education. There are amazingly innovative ideas happening. However incredible, they aren't currently equitable; they aren't accessible to all. Imagine if...
Category: EquitySocial Media Discourse: Violence, Olympiads and Our Everyday Life
All the world's attention was recently focused on the Olympic Games in London. The competition was widely broadcasted by traditional and online media, with an astronomic audience, reaching many countries. Social media...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityLearning from Failure: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part II
Professor Anne Balsamo has been collaborating with Professor Alexandra Juhasz and a group of more than one hundred feminist scholars to pilot a new kind of online course devoted to feminist dialogues...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityBodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I
Next year, over a hundred feminist scholars are slated to teach a new kind of online course—the first “MDCLE” or “massively distributed collaborative learning experiment”—tentatively titled “Feminist Dialogues on Technology." Drawing on...
Categories: Digital Learning, Equity
