When it comes to youth, technology and literacy, the warring lines seem to have been drawn and the voices on both the sides are strident, if not loud. There are those who...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityBlog Posts
Teaching Teachers, Honoring Learners: Interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
As digital media and networks make possible more networked and collaborative pedagogies, who teaches the teachers how to take advantage of the opportunities (and avoid the pitfalls) that new technologies afford? I...
Category: Educational PracticeFrom Conversation to Collection
Recently I had the opportunity to attend a symposium on the digital humanities hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Media research group. The occasion was the publication of "Debates in the...
Category: Educational PracticeWhat do research methods do? Research methods are routinely understood as objective techniques for getting to know the world. Yet they may be more influential and socially significant than this, particularly as...
Category: ResearchA Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12
Below you will find a collaboratively written document produced in Bangkok, Thailand, at the March 28-31 teacher’s meeting of EARCOS, the East Asia Regional Council of Schools. EARCOS is an organization of...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeIn a new report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, "Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality," the authors set out to “map and explore...
Category: EquityThe Ethics and Responsibilities of the 21st Century Classroom: Part One
When I think about the “ethics and responsibilities of the 21st century classroom,” I think not only about our ethical responsibilities toward students but about our ethical responsibilities toward teachers. I am...
Category: Educational PracticeGaining Some Perspective on Badges for Lifelong Learning
I first read about the idea of Open Badges back in the middle of last year. It excited me. One thing I’ve always been interested in is how to shift the power...
Category: EdtechWebinar: How Can We Disrupt the “Banking” System of Education?
Earlier today, connectedlearning.tv hosted a live webinar with librarian Buffy Hamilton, aka “The Unquiet Librarian,” on the topic: How do libraries cultivate participatory literacy to disrupt what Paulo Freire calls the "banking"...
Category: Connected LearningThe Role of Tech vs The Purpose of Education
Working in the field of digital media and learning, where the important role of new technologies in learning seems self-evident, the slow pace of change in mainstream education can feel frustrating. Responding...
Category: Digital LearningWhat Tech Wants: A People Agenda
I loved Kevin Kelly’s book, and especially loved the message I heard from it. What I heard was that tech wants us to become more humane, not less. What I heard, was...
Category: EquityI recently returned from the engaging and rewarding DML2012 both exhausted and invigorated. As I debrief the many ideas and challenges to existing learning practices that were shared and explored at this...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityReflecting on Dharun Ravi’s Conviction
On Friday, Dharun Ravi -- the Rutgers student whose roommate Tyler Clementi killed himself in a case narrated through the lens of cyberbullying -- was found guilty of privacy invasion, tampering with...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThe Future of Learning and Teaching: It’s Time for ‘Audacious Goals’
In an impassioned call to action, Diana Rhoten kicked off the 2012 Digital Media and Learning conference by suggesting that education will never see its long-overdue renaissance without "audacious goals." Senior vice...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeReflexivity: Why We Must Choose to Shape, and Not Be Shaped By, Technology
In her new book, Consent of the Networked, Rebecca Mackinnon offers a reality check: "We have a problem,” she writes. “We understand how power works in the physical world, but we do...
Category: Digital Citizenship
