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Educating for Democracy: What We Can Do
Teresa Chin works with youth in downtown Oakland, Calif. at Youth Radio — a media production company driven by young people. One thing she works with youth on is the development of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Educational PracticeConnecting Making, Designing and Composing
In her closing keynote at FabLearn a couple years ago, Leah Buechley turned a critical eye on the maker movement. If you don’t know Buechley’s work, she is arguably one of the...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeDigitally Improving Historical Knowledge
This is the second part in a multi-part series about participants in the Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities conference. This series features public intellectuals discussing digital literacy issues. “Colored Conventions: Bringing...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityFerguson Syllabus and the Power of Social Media
This is the first part in a multi-part series about participants in the Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities conference. This series features public intellectuals in the academy discussing digital literacy issues....
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityFrom Tech Engagement to Tech Scholars
One of the reasons I was very excited to join a community college is because there is a gap in how we think about bringing digital media and technology into learning. While...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityFostering Democratic Dialogue with Digital Annotation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3WGKOpQg0E As a professor at a public, land-grant institution, I consider it my sacred responsibility to produce and share knowledge that directly benefits the communities I have the honor to serve. As...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWatchworthy Wednesday: Be Part of the Connected Learning Summit
The new Connected Learning Summit (CLS), to be held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Aug. 1-3, will be all about revolutionizing how kids learn, and those interested in progressive...
Category: Connected LearningReframing the ‘Progressive’ vs. ‘Traditionalist’ Debate in Education
One of the unfortunate side effects of the 2007-8 global economic crash has been our decade-long slide into intolerance of the unfamiliar and unknown. Rival groups trade blows over their proposed solutions...
Category: Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: Fellowship Targets Teacher Educators for Social Justice
Teacher educators interested in empowering future teachers to teach for social justice are being invited to apply to the Transformative Teacher-Educator Program (TTEP). “I developed the fellowship to provide a space and...
Category: Educational PracticeWearable Real-time Brainwave Training in the Classroom
Earlier this year, I began to detect a growing interest in the idea that “neurotechnologies” such as brain-scanners and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) could be applied in education. A new field of “ed-neurotech,”...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsWatchworthy Wednesday: Feeding Mind and Body
A University of California, Irvine undergrad, whose mother died two years ago leaving her to care for her grandfather and younger brother, was lucky when she could afford a meal for herself....
Category: EquitySelling Social-emotional Learning
Social-emotional learning has become a significant education policy priority and a key focus for education technology development and investment. The core idea behind social-emotional learning (SEL) approaches is that the “non-cognitive” aspects...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsWatchworthy Wednesday: Lessons on Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship, according to Common Sense Media, is “a way of thinking critically online, being safe with your information and who you connect with and acting responsibly in how you communicate and...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Importance of Student Privacy in Big Data
I’ve written in the past about understanding the Terms of sites you are asking students to use and been interviewed about the implications of social media in classes. This year, one of...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWatchworthy Wednesday: Day of the Dead Resources Guide Educators
Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, today celebrated Nov. 1 and 2, is a tradition of honoring ancestors, and more educators are seeking ways to teach about it. Started...
Category: Equity
