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‘Connected Learning’ in Edge Communities
For more than nine weeks now I have been working with a high school in the Central Texas area, getting to know students, teachers, and administrators. Along with a fantastic team of...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityTeaching Publishing as a 21st Century Literacy
For years, a common method for teaching writing in elementary and secondary school was the five paragraph essay. Lately this style of essay has fallen out of favor, for a variety of...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeNo Child Left Behind: The Economic Motive of National Education Policy
I’ve often thought about how our national educational policy of No Child Left Behind, passed in 2002, reinforces and connects to the increasing income disparity in the United States. Some of the...
Category: EquityRole-Playing Racial History through Digital Games
Teaching historical empathy through gaming is an important area in digital media and learning, but collaborations between university professors and game designers aren’t always easy. Nonetheless, UC San Diego Theater and Dance...
Categories: Edtech, EquityMedia, Youth Activism & Participatory Politics: Case Studies in a Digital Age
The growing use of digital media for social change is nourishing a dialogue about its impact on young people’s involvement in civic and political affairs. The Media Activism Participatory Politics (MAPP) project,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipHow Age Restrictions Complicate Digital Media & Learning
Digital media and learning scholars have long understood the importance of access when it comes to digital technologies. Whether we’re talking about the digital divide or the participation gap, we all recognize...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityWorthy Reads: Youth Media Production, Games & Learning, Pottermore, Web Freedom
A new report on YOUmedia, a youth-centered digital learning initiative at the Chicago Public Library, explores what it means to reimagine learning, literacies and libraries. The report takes a hard look at...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EdtechIn Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityDigital Opportunities for Civic Education
Earlier this year, Professor Joseph Kahne and a group of civic learning scholars announced a key finding from a study of student Internet usage: youth who pursue their interests online are more...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipSerendipity, aka “Accidental Discovery”: Does the Web Help or Hurt?
I am obsessed with serendipity. It's become an almost pathological fascination since 2009, when I was inspired by a happy confluence of what I was doing then, and something that bumped up...
Category: EdtechDigital Literacies for Writing in Social Media
The following is a shortened version of a talk I gave at the "Engaging the Public" symposium held at Washington & Jefferson College on Oct. 1. According to Cathy Davidson's Now You...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLearning, Freedom, Youth, and the Web: Brazil
Freedom of speech and social mobilization is new for many countries in Latin America. Most have had closed governments and dictatorships for the last 30 years. However, because of the spread of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipDemocratizing Learning Innovation
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a...
Category: Digital LearningFirst Person: The Book Tour in the Age of the Internet
Note: We asked tech-savvy scholar Cathy Davidson to reflect on the realities of an author's tour in the digital age. Her new book, "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of...
Category: Digital CitizenshipPrivatizing Public Education and ‘Learning to Cheat’ as a Digital Literacy
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice
