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Networked Narratives: Netproving in the Mirror World
In our most recent script, we set the stage for how we approached the Networked Narratives course (@NetNarr) as a networked improvisation including some mystery characters. Here, we reflect on what was...
Category: Digital LearningDeveloping Socially Engaged Youth Through Game Design
This summer at the Games For Change Festival, the Game Jam Guide e-book was released, sharing advice from a range of experts on how to lead game jams. One of those experts...
Categories: Edtech, Educational Practice5 Secrets to Creating an Innovative After-school Program
A little over a year ago, Mahad Ibrahim reached out to me about Connected Camps, an organization I’m leading with Katie Salen that offers online learning programs and mentorship in Minecraft. Mahad...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeHow Young Activists Deploy Digital Tools for Social Change
Nabela Noor, a young American Muslim Youtube personality, was born of Bangladeshi parents and had developed a large following based on her make-up tutorials and fashion advice. Frustrated by what she saw...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: Remake Learning Network Turns 10, Reaches Forward
The Remake Learning network started as an experiment in collaboration among educators, researchers, mentors and caring adults and has become a movement touching thousands of lives in southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio. As...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityHighlighting Young Producers by Twisting Fate
“What if Lord Voldemort had never become Lord Voldemort? What if he found the love of his life before everything started?” So teases the description of Knilesly’s short story, “The Queer Quill.”...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningThe Need for Frank Discussions About Digital Identity, Trust
I have been writing profiles of core members of the design team working on developing the Center for Solutions to Online Violence over the course of the past year and have been...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWhy Museums Should Dive Into VR
As a young child, I took this photo, of the Franklin Museum’s Giant Heart, my way of expressing my love for this immersive, interactive experience. A few decades later, last month, I...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsOpportunity to Share Research on Connected Learning, Teacher Education
If you follow my blog posts, you know that I am deeply committed to exploring the intersections of connected learning and teacher education, both in my own practice as a teacher educator and...
Categories: Connected Learning, ResearchCombining Art and Technology Engages Students
To maker-educators Fabrice Florin and Edward Janne, maker ed is not just about the technology: “the real power comes from enabling students to build their own projects, combining art, technology, and storytelling,”...
Category: Educational PracticeFrugal Innovation in Digital Learning
I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on what makes a good and accessible digital assignment for faculty and teachers who are not comfortable with digital tools but open to learning and...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityDigital Learning in British Art Museums
Disclaimer: The Tate Modern is one of my favorite museums. My previous apartment held a place of honor, above the couch, for a poster I picked up there. And, in 2014, I...
Category: Digital LearningWatchworthy Wednesday: Google Expands Free Computer Science Education Program
In its quest to make computer science education free and accessible to everyone, Google is expanding its igniteCS program. The initiative pairs volunteer computer science undergrads, who serve as mentors, and younger...
Category: Digital LearningThe concept of “big data” has been the subject of considerable hype and speculation in recent years. So much so that the dominant technologies and technical practices that generate big data —...
Category: New TrendsWatchworthy Wednesday: Get Your Game On with Research, Design Workshops
If you’re interested in gaming research, how to design educational games and how gaming can be used to promote learning and social impact, you should check out this year’s two gaming workshops...
Category: Edtech
