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What do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
The recent launch of Google+, a new social network, has caused ripples in many different online spaces. From talk of it being a ‘Facebook killer’ because of its enhanced privacy settings to...
Category: Digital CitizenshipGreat Resources (July): Assessment, Youth Culture, Games & Learning
Do we need badges, specifically badges for learning? In recent years, the answer has been increasingly, if not exactly “yes” then something more like “we better find out before it’s too late.”...
Category: EdtechGamechanger: Digital Media plus Student-centered, Immersive, Peer-led Learning
In the middle of one of the hottest and driest summers on record, twenty Austin, TX, area high school students showed up for school everyday for four weeks. While the four-week project...
Categories: Connected Learning, EdtechSearch Personalization and Digital Literacy
The near total dominance of computer search over our information gathering has presented our culture with an interesting (and possibly unique) problem in the history of information management: what you see when...
Category: Digital CitizenshipFour Questions about Civic Media
The civic media field is often better defined by example than in abstractions. The field is so nascent and fluid that any comprehensive, conceptual definition will likely miss key aspects of the...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipDigital Learning and the Arab Spring
As revolution and revolt spreads across the Arab world, Americans often see social networking sites and online video as playing a starring role. Whether it is testimony about police brutality or jubilation...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningA Teenager Taps Social Media to Help Change his Struggling Community
"Intense shootings happening at this moment in the Complexo do Alemao!" tweeted teenager Rene Silva on Nov. 9, 2010. Using his personal Twitter account (@Rene_Silva_RJ) and the Twitter account of a newspaper...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, EquityWe’re a district InnovationLab in Loveland, Colorado, where students have crafted, and just completed year one, of a four-year plan of disruption to redefine school. Based on findings that learning at its...
Category: Educational PracticeRethinking the “New” in “New Media”
I’m not a label person. Really, I usually don’t care what we call something. However, sometimes the words we call the tools and practices of teachers get in the way of acceptance,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe globalization of digital media has put pressure on education systems worldwide to be reformed. The emphasis is on schooling that will promote the cosmopolitan identities of globalized digital citizens. But what...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeShare, Grow, Do: The Potential of Digital Age Learning
The National Writing Project has launched a fantastic new web site, Digital Is, to build a community amongst educators exploring how the digital age is changing how we write, share, collaborate, publish...
Category: Digital CitizenshipMobile Phones, Digital Media, and America’s Learning Divide
During a recent research related visit to New York City I decided to take a stroll down 125th Street in Harlem. Among the assortment of shops and vendors on the famous stretch...
Category: EquityHow does Digital Media impact Youth Political and Civic Engagement?
There’s a lot of conversation about young people’s use of digital media and how it impacts their engagement -- or lack of engagement -- in civic affairs and politics, but not a...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipP2PU: Learning for Everyone, by Everyone, about almost Anything
Meet Philipp Schmidt, co-founder and executive director of Peer to Peer University, an emerging, Web-based global learning community. At P2PU, study groups form and gather online to learn a particular topic. They...
Category: Educational PracticeGoing Interactive in a Big Way: How Can We Transform the Lecture Class?
This is the last in a three-part “end of term” series of blog posts on “Doing Better by Gen Y.” In the first post, one of my students spoke about the paucity...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice
