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How to Make a Million Dollars, One Facebook Class at a Time
The fall of 2007 was, in many ways, a simpler time: the most popular social network in the United States was an Los Angeles-based outfit called Myspace; Apple had just released an...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningHype, Reality, Insights on Cyberbullying, Videogaming, and Learning Institutions
At the top of the not-to-be-missed list is "Good and Bad Cyberbullying PSAs: How to Tell the Difference," an exceptional blog post by childhood expert Rosalind Wiseman, who insightfully frames the cyberbullying...
Category: EdtechShould We Design Social Justice into Learning?
The notion of design is central to the way we think about learning, and to how we think about digital media. Some would argue that learning is "designed in" to digital media...
Category: EquityIf Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, originally germinated out of fun and impulse, the next stage was more scary-serious. As soon as I...
Category: Digital LearningWhat Should Civic Learning Look Like in an Age of Social and Technological Change?
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and her iCivics team recently convened a thought provoking conference, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age. In partnership with the Aspen Institute, Georgetown Law,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipWhat Are Digital Literacies? Let’s Ask the Students
Two weeks ago I blogged on DML Central on “Doing Better by Generation Y” and the tendency for pundits to criticize Gen Y’s absorption with new media, critique how little they know,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipGetting Serious About Reimagining Learning in the Digital Age
I want to have a conversation about what it’s going to take to turn schools around and why digital media -- as it’s currently being used -- isn’t yet helping. I’m going...
Category: Educational PracticeRobots are always in the news, it seems. Whether they are serving as caregivers for the elderly or helping solve the Japanese nuclear crisis, robots are becoming an increasingly important part of...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningOne of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart. The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a...
Category: EquityWhen Lauren Sanders concentrates on her childhood memories, she can recall “the fuzzy sounds of dial-up Internet and the generic female voice cheerfully state, ‘You’ve Got Mail.’” Born in 1990, Lauren is...
Category: EquitySchool, Work and Play: Decoding Digital Age Shifts
Learning with digital media is often articulated through an affective vocabulary of play, informality, enjoyment, and creativity, as opposed to the formality, standards and routines of conventional schooling. This difference in the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipEinstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age
When I started using digital media in my classroom, I began my search for mentors by inspecting Will Richardson's social bookmarking networks on Diigo, then followed on Twitter some of the people...
Category: Digital CitizenshipCyberbullying: An International Perspective
A viral video of an Australian boy retaliating against a bully at school has sharply ratcheted up offline and online discussions of cyberbullying. On websites in numerous countries, young and old alike...
Category: Digital CitizenshipHappiness, Learning, and Technology: Why “Affective” Schools are the New “Effective” Schools
What are the connections between emotional education and digital media and learning? Faced with a global economic recession, civic unrest, and major environmental catastrophe, governments around the world are now obsessed with...
Category: Educational Practice
