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Parenting in the Age of Screen Time
Setting screen time rules isn’t simple, but Anya Kamenetz’ new book, “The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life,” aims to help parents moderate technology...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe tyranny of correct answers masks a vital and essential element of learning — the practice of debugging. When you make something, however, especially something that involves code and/or electronic or mechanical...
Category: Educational PracticeTeaching Underrepresented Students How to Navigate Higher Ed Via Digital Humanities
This is the third 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. Professor Marisa Parham...
Category: EquityCo-Learning: Modeling Cooperative-Collaborative Learning
Moving the classroom chairs in a circle had radical effects on the way we all looked at our learning: As I told my students, if we transported a warrior from 1,000 years...
Category: Educational Practice10 Connected Learning Lesson Plans from the Remake Learning Network
For me, one of the greatest joys of teaching is the chance to learn from other educators: the opportunity to peek under the hood at all the moving parts behind a dynamite...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeLearner Agency: Sharing Control of the Classroom Agenda
When I reflect on the 10 years I spent teaching at UC Berkeley and Stanford, and look back over the 127 interviews I did with innovators in digital media and learning, “learner...
Category: Educational PracticeEducating 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 Practice
