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How Age Restrictions Complicate Digital Media & Learning
Digital media and learning scholars have long understood the importance of access when it comes to digital technologies. Whether we’re talking about the digital divide or the participation gap, we all recognize...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityIn Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThe Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric
We all know that teen bullying - both online and offline - has devastating consequences. Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide is a tragedy. He was tormented for being gay. He knew he was being...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquitySeeing the Classroom as a Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change
Antero Garcia, who teaches English at a high school in South Central Los Angeles, is a PhD candidate, focusing on critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and...
Category: EquityConectar Igualdad: Argentina’s Bold Move to Build an Equitable Digital Future
I recently had a chance to participate in a wonderful conference in Buenos Aires. El Congreso Internacional de Inclusión Digital Educativa (The International Conference on Digital Inclusion Education) was an event that...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityA Teenager Taps Social Media to Help Change his Struggling Community
"Intense shootings happening at this moment in the Complexo do Alemao!" tweeted teenager Rene Silva on Nov. 9, 2010. Using his personal Twitter account (@Rene_Silva_RJ) and the Twitter account of a newspaper...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, EquityMobile Phones, Digital Media, and America’s Learning Divide
During a recent research related visit to New York City I decided to take a stroll down 125th Street in Harlem. Among the assortment of shops and vendors on the famous stretch...
Category: EquityShould We Design Social Justice into Learning?
The notion of design is central to the way we think about learning, and to how we think about digital media. Some would argue that learning is "designed in" to digital media...
Category: EquityOne of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart. The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a...
Category: EquityWhen Lauren Sanders concentrates on her childhood memories, she can recall “the fuzzy sounds of dial-up Internet and the generic female voice cheerfully state, ‘You’ve Got Mail.’” Born in 1990, Lauren is...
Category: EquityTimes of crisis are times of change and provide an opportunity to imagine alternative educational futures. Following the UK’s winter of protests about cuts to education budgets and rising tuition fees, students...
Category: EquityIdentity, Avatars, Virtual Life – and Advancing Social Equity in the ‘Real’ World
This semester, MIT professor Fox Harrell is teaching an ambitious new course on “Identity Representation” that includes studying identities adopted in computer games and social network sites. In the course description posted...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityYoung Black Males, Learning, and Video Games
A recent report on educational achievement among young black males describes a “national catastrophe” in primary, secondary, and higher education that is reinforced by policy failures and funding shortfalls. “A Call for...
Categories: Edtech, EquityDigital Divides, Blog Bans, Games That Cause Change
Global Kids points us to important new resources in the digital media and learning field each month. "It's how you play the game" (article): Followers of games and education are familiar with...
Categories: Edtech, Equity
