When it comes to youth, technology and literacy, the warring lines seem to have been drawn and the voices on both the sides are strident, if not loud. There are those who...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityEquity
In a new report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, "Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality," the authors set out to “map and explore...
Category: EquityWhat Tech Wants: A People Agenda
I loved Kevin Kelly’s book, and especially loved the message I heard from it. What I heard was that tech wants us to become more humane, not less. What I heard, was...
Category: EquityI recently returned from the engaging and rewarding DML2012 both exhausted and invigorated. As I debrief the many ideas and challenges to existing learning practices that were shared and explored at this...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityReflecting on Dharun Ravi’s Conviction
On Friday, Dharun Ravi -- the Rutgers student whose roommate Tyler Clementi killed himself in a case narrated through the lens of cyberbullying -- was found guilty of privacy invasion, tampering with...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityReflections on DML2012 and Visions of Educational Change
A few days back home after DML2012, I've been browsing through the blogosphere and tweet streams and reflecting on the various conversations I had at the event. One unfortunate side-effect of being...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityOn 22 September 2010, the wallet of Tyler Clementi - a gay freshman at Rutgers University - was found on the George Washington Bridge; his body was found in the Hudson River...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityDigital Futures: Internet Freedom and Millennials
Last year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability amendment to the existing Information Technologies...
Category: EquityWhat Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media
The debates about schools and social media are a subject of great public and policy interests. In reality, the debate has been shaped by one key fact: the almost universal decision by...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityBased on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’...
Category: EquityFour Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide
Over the last couple of years, I've laid awake at night asking myself uncomfortable questions about bullying and teen suicide. I don't have answers to most of the questions that I have,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityYoung Black Males, Learning, and Gaming
Betsy DiSalvo is a Human Centered Computing PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing looking at the ways in which culture impacts technology, and how we can...
Categories: Edtech, Equity‘Connected Learning’ in Edge Communities
For more than nine weeks now I have been working with a high school in the Central Texas area, getting to know students, teachers, and administrators. Along with a fantastic team of...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityNo Child Left Behind: The Economic Motive of National Education Policy
I’ve often thought about how our national educational policy of No Child Left Behind, passed in 2002, reinforces and connects to the increasing income disparity in the United States. Some of the...
Category: EquityRole-Playing Racial History through Digital Games
Teaching historical empathy through gaming is an important area in digital media and learning, but collaborations between university professors and game designers aren’t always easy. Nonetheless, UC San Diego Theater and Dance...
Categories: Edtech, Equity
