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KitHub Designed to Empower Young Innovators
KitHub, “creative electronics for young innovators,” is a kit-of-the-month club for young makers, their parents, and their families. It was designed to empower kids and parents who weren’t necessarily close to a...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityAdvancing Access for Digital Youth with Disabilities
“Disability is central to the human experience,” writes Meryl Alper in the opening chapter of her book, “Digital Youth with Disabilities.” The report summarizes how children with disabilities use media for social...
Category: EquityIs the Maker Movement Equitable?
The title of the article from The Atlantic stopped me in my tracks as I was scrolling through my Twitter feed: “Why I am Not a Maker.” I was perplexed. Why would someone...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, EquityThe Reader in Digital Humanities
The Reader in Paradise Lost DIgital Humanities When Stanley Fish wrote his magnificent treatise on the role of the reader in John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, he was making an argument that the real fallen...
Category: EquityMobile Money, Financial Literacy and Learning Through Digital Media
The fact that a cellular telephone can transmit the value of a particular currency from one party to another may be increasingly obvious, given the rise of specialized digital money services in...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThe United States Census Bureau has been tracking computer use since 1984 and the use of the Internet since 1997. Not surprisingly, much has changed over that span of time. Even though...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityIndieCade, Part 2: Anxieties About GamerGate
The so-called “GamerGate” controversy about the independent games movement, which has finally reached the pages of the New York Times, has become the big story this fall. I have provided a wrap-up of...
Category: EquityRethinking the Web as Picture Book and Soundscape
I have a dear friend who entered graduate studies in my department a bit after I’d started. I will call him Sam. Sam was different. He was one of the few other...
Category: EquityRecasting the Bullying Narrative
Youth media production is often seen as an admirable way to help underserved K-12 students find voices in their communities. With the advent of more accessible multimedia technologies and the means for...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityAddressing Race, Inequity Issues Through Social Media Power
The fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. began dominating the national headlines instantly. One of the biggest factors, as Newsweek's Elijah Wolfson points out, was the use of social media by...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity‘Breaking the Wall of Internet Censorship’
When I was in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall but before the reunification of the two divided states, I was struck by how many shop windows advertised how-to...
Category: EquityInnovators, Not Hackers: Stop Portraying Youth as Digital Deviants
Why is it that when young people use technology on adult terms, they are praised as 21st century learners, but when they use technology on their OWN terms, they are castigated as...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityBrazil Internet ‘Bill of Rights’ Protects Web Users
Leading the way toward protecting individual rights and freedom of expression on the Internet, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved a Bill of Rights, “Marco Civil.”The landmark legislation now awaits approval...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityGaming and New Gender Paradigms
Previously, I’ve written about role-playing racial history through digital games, so it is perhaps not surprising that I would be interested in an Ellis Island MMORG or a game about the Harlem...
Categories: Edtech, EquityRolezinhos: Flash Mobs, Social Media and Teens
A new movement — the "rolezinhos" (meaning something like "hang out somewhere" or “little strolls”) — has taken hold in Brazil. Through social media, the rolezinhos started as a simple call for...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity
