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PortoAlegre.cc: Giving A City Back to Its Citizens
Several new projects are trying to use cyberspace as a platform to help citizens build an information network and share information about their cities. One effort that has achieved significant traction is...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipWorthy Reads: Mobile Learning, Flipped Lessons, New Media Literacies
Fast Company magazine recently featured this article, from design studio Frog’s Fabio Sergio, on how mobile devices will provide learning opportunities for people across age and income spectrums. It offers a nice...
Category: Digital LearningA Vision for Learning Designed by Youth for Youth: Notice. Dream. Connect. Do. Be.
The basics as defined by school is a very limited and restrictive set of skills. The word basic is often referred to as essential. Essential translates to absolutely necessary or extremely important....
Category: Connected LearningPop Culture Criticism as 21st Century Skill
As part of the Digital Youth Network’s (DYN) 2011-2012 professional development, we have set out to explore how critical media literacy can help Chicago middle school students become responsible and savvy digital...
Category: Digital LearningGoing Low-Tech to Teach New Literacies
Ethnic Studies professor Wayne Yang takes a distinctive approach to new media literacies to get UC San Diego students to host their own Comic-Con comic book convention with original graphic novel projects....
Category: Digital CitizenshipSocial Media and Public Sphere: The #VetaDilma Movement and Brazil’s Forests
Today Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vetoed several parts of a controversial forest bill that had been approved by Brazil’s Congress and promoted by powerful agricultural interests. Until today, it was unclear how...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipBeyond the Console: Gaming, Learning & Literacy
Tanner Higgin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside studying race, gender, and power in digital media cultures. He's also researching and developing play and project-based curriculum...
Categories: Edtech, EquityHow and Why to Make Your Digital Publications Matter
I don’t have the metrics, but I’ll stake my professional reputation on the following statement: In the last one or two years, there has been a seachange in how even the most...
Category: Digital CitizenshipRecommended Reads: On What Kids Can Learn, Minecraft, Generation Y
Common Sense Media, known as the go-to resource for solid reviews of movies, books, and television, just released a new ratings initiative to evaluate the learning potential of websites, video games, and...
Category: EdtechDigital Underlife and the Writing Classroom
In a 1987 paper, Robert Brooke argued that instructors needed to pay attention to the ways that students didn't pay attention, like passing notes in class or whispering conversations. Building on the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipTechnology, Cities & Collaboration
As Assistant Professor of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design, Laura Forlano’s interests converge at the intersection of technology, cities, and culture. Prior to her professorship in design, Forlano...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDIY U: Interview with Anya Kamenetz
I was very excited by Anya Kamenetz’s book, DIY U, which I highly recommend, and her free ebook, The Edupunk’s Guide! I’m also very interested in what Anya is doing with P2PU...
Category: Digital LearningExploration: Digital Media and Social Inequality
Christo Sims is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley's School of Information and a graduate researcher for the Connected Learning Research Network’s Leveling Up project. The project team is investigating the learning...
Category: EquityWhy Critical Design Literacy is Needed Now More Than Ever
One thing is clear in our work at Texas City High School (TCHS) this year: students like to create their own media. Students at TCHS create their own YouTube channels, compose original...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityReality, the Game: Interview with Interactive Expert Jeff Watson
When I read Henry Jenkins’ description of the Pokemon-like card game he played with entering students at USC’s interdisciplinary Cinema School, I realized that the project Tracy Fullerton had described in September,...
Category: Edtech
