Selfies have become the cultural artifacts of our time, a digital mosaic of the diversity of our online lives. And while some say selfies are a mark of a deeply narcissistic culture,...
Category: New TrendsBlog Posts
Educators Exemplifying Connected Learning
When I first started teaching college students, the term “social media” had not been invented, and for the most part, teaching and learning were proceeding the way they had been practiced for...
Category: Connected LearningTeacher Educators Living the Connected Learning Life
It was perhaps inevitable. A bunch of die-hard connected learning scholars, all working in our own institutions, separated by space, time, and borders. Studying about how people learn through connecting, yet totally...
Category: Connected LearningThe Marginal Syllabus: Supporting Educators’ Connected Learning
Earlier this month, Marginal Syllabus leaders participated in the 2018 Connected Learning Summit (CLS) at MIT’s Media Lab. The Marginal Syllabus started in August of the 2016 and, following two years of...
Categories: Connected Learning, EdtechHow Important Is Digital Literacy?
How important is digital literacy in the classroom? When you consider that every student today must learn to be responsible for how they use technology to interact with the world around them,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipUsing Humor to Connect and Teach
“You can’t shape the world if no one is engaging with you. And humor is very effective in opening a channel of potential connection.” This was just one of many takeaways from...
Category: Connected LearningHow to Be a Learning Instigator
When educator Michelle King teaches middle school students about America’s founding document, she kicks off the lesson by asking how people today break up with each other. A simple electronic text or...
Category: Educational PracticeMatching Students, Educators for Learning Connections Through linkr
For educators ready to connect their students to peers and other educators to collaborate on learning myriad subjects all over the world, doing so digitally is just what linkr Education offers. Gabriel...
Category: EdtechConnecting Rural Educators: Professional Development Goes Digital
Many educators in our DML network will be familiar with The National Writing Project (NWP), a 45-year-old professional development network, whose focus is on improving the teaching of writing across all grade...
Category: Educational PracticeTextransformations: Interactive Art Practice as Connected Learning
We find ourselves in a cultural moment that is particularly fraught with the impulse for instant gratification as online social networks have us “plugged in” and busy narrating our lives online. So...
Category: Connected LearningThe Emergence of the ESU Digital Warriors
In the early weeks of the fall semester of 2017, we developed a series of events that provided students opportunities to create Esports activities that led to a universitywide showcase competition. We...
Categories: Connected Learning, New TrendsCLS Keynote Speaker to Deliver Talk on Importance of Connected Learning
As a kid in the early 1980s, Baratunde Thurston took part in myriad enrichment activities — from sports and community gardening to boy scouts, cultural spectating and political activism. His mother encouraged...
Category: Connected LearningScientists Seek Genetic Data to Personalize Education
Researchers have begun to propose using genetic data from students to personalize education. Bringing genetics into education is highly controversial. It raises significant concerns about biological discrimination and rekindles long debates about...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsConnected Learning and 21st Century English Teacher Education
Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs — what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeRaising Conservation Awareness through Minecraft Aquatic Game for World Oceans Day
In an effort to raise awareness of marine conservation, the Ocean Institute, Connected Camps and the Connected Learning Alliance are inviting young people to take part in a Minecraft social media activation...
Category: Civic Engagement
