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Watchworthy Wednesday: Spreading Storytelling Through Photography and Connecting Educators
As a documentary photographer, Andrea Birnbaum is a storyteller. But, she emphasizes, “I am very aware that I cannot tell other people’s stories for them. I can only show my perspective on...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: A Dreamer’s Guide to College Funds
Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca would not be studying at Cañada College in Redwood City, getting ready to transfer to a four-year college and major in political science and communications, were it not for...
Category: EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: Expounding on Educational Equity
Schools are just one place where learning takes place. Education can also be had at libraries, after-school programs, summer camps and online. In fact, today’s abundance of technological resources provides myriad learning...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityAnything but Beautiful and Maidenlike: The Online Civic Engagement of Brazilian Women
In 2010, we Brazilians elected our first female president. Dilma Rousseff was re-elected in 2014. Today, she awaits her impeachment trial by the Senate as Vice President Michel Temer assumes her duties. Since...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThere are No Lessons for Alton or Philando
Like many of you, I cried on Wednesday as I watched Alton Sterling’s son cry for his daddy a day after he was murdered by the police of Baton Rouge. I watched...
Category: EquitySTEM Design Strategies to Engage Underrepresented Students
Although “making is a stance toward learning,” Minecraft is proving to be an object to learn with as well as think with in many after-school programs. “Talking about tinkering while doing it,...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: Protego — An Orlando Call to Action
Just days before a gunman killed 49 people in a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Fla., the Harry Potter Alliance launched its “Protego” campaign, which aims to make the world a safer place for the transgender community....
Categories: Civic Engagement, EquityResearch Shows Connected Learning Works
Does connected learning — particularly in disadvantaged communities and for underrepresented youth — work? The answer is important to students, educators, and parents. It’s also of great interest to institutions such as...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityClosing Digital Gap: Libraries Offer Youth STEM Programs
It seems today that STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and coding are constantly in the news, especially in relation to youth and learning. But, despite near incessant news coverage, there is...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityThe Power of Debate as Form of Civic Communication
In the popular imagination, debate is usually perceived in one of two ways — as a stuffy academic exercise (think policy wonks) or a raucous shouting match (think recent Republican presidential debates). Urban...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityIntroducing New Book Series: ‘Connected Youth and Digital Futures’
Building on research supported by the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning initiative, a new series “Connected Youth and Digital Futures,” is debuting its first two books — By Any Media Necessary:...
Category: EquityEquitable Connected Learning Requires Diverse Research Perspectives
As a former high school English teacher in two large, urban school districts, I completely understand how educators, parents and policymakers who are wrestling each day with the most pressing issues facing...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityThe Politics of Reticence: Beyond Number Games
Politics by numbers is a funny game. It allows for large structures like universities to reduce the question of diversity, plurality, dissent, and acceptance into quantified rubrics of access, inclusion, and representation....
Category: EquitySpeaking for the Oregon Trail Generation: Meet the Center for Solutions to Online Violence Team
Moya Bailey brings her enthusiasm for transforming the digital humanities and her interest in asking critical questions about basic conditions for digital community engagement to her position at Northeastern University. Bailey has been...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityFrom Changing Education Systems to Changing Society
Whether stated explicitly or not, a core proposition of DML is that there are deep consequences to the ways that young people are learning both in and out of school and using digital...
Categories: Educational Practice, Equity
