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Top 5 Blog Posts on Digital Media and Learning for 2010
The DML Central blog is just over a year old, and the close of 2010 marks our first full year of publishing thought leadership from our featured bloggers and highlighting best practices...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningPeer Learning Isn’t Easy (But Some Days It’s Amazing)
I’m not teaching a class this term. I’m doing something lots harder. I am making a collaborative, peer-led experience available to students. There are six of them: three graduate students, two undergraduate...
Category: Educational PracticeThe Joy of Writing – With Ancient Tools or New
The Telegraph recently published an article announcing that, in the age of Facebook and Twitter, "ancient communication technologies" like handwriting "are current like never before." The title of the article -- "How Twitter...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Self-Harm and Other Acts of Self-Harassment
Sometimes, things aren't what they appear to be. And, in those cases, jumping to the wrong conclusion can be a disservice to everyone. After I first wrote about Formspring seven months ago,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipStudent-led Curriculum: Demanding, Digital, Compelling
At November’s University of California Institute for Research in the Arts conference, the emphasis was on college courses that couldn’t be planned out according to set syllabi and fixed course objectives, because...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeWhy Is Everyone Worried About Attention Now?
If you read the newspapers of the early twentieth century, you realize that everyone was fretting then about the “horseless carriage.” They were positive that the new technology of an automobile that...
Category: Digital CitizenshipNew Media Literacy: Critique vs Re-design
A central concern of media education has been to empower young people with the ability to question, analyze, critique and deconstruct messages they encounter in media. But in a global remix culture,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity“Bullying” Has Little Resonance with Teenagers
Ever had one of dem days you wish woulda stayed home / Run into a group of niggas who getting they hate on / You walk by they get wrong you reply...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityHow Learning Spaces Reflect Our View of Children
Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of...
Category: Educational PracticeCommunity and Writing in an Age of New Collectives
In Larry Sanger's history of the development of Wikipedia in Open Sources 2.0, the Wikipedia co-founder writes: For months I denied that Wikipedia was a community, claiming that it was, instead, only...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningLiteracies, Semantic Web and Recommended Resources
Editor's note: Global Kids does a stellar job each month pointing us to excellent resources. The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition (report) The 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition, part of the New...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLearning, Playing, Designing: Video Games in School
Most education has been fashioned around the reasonable-sounding objective of equipping students with tools to solve problems. This is one facet of what some educators call the "eat your broccoli" approach to...
Category: EdtechSocial Justice and Diverse Cultures of Participation
Many educators are excited by the new opportunities and challenges for learning that digital media brings us. Stories about 11-year-old Kai, a learner at Quest to Learn school in New York, paint...
Category: EquityShelly Terrell: Global Netweaver, Curator, PLN Builder
When I started using social media in the classroom, I looked for and began to learn from more experienced educators. First, I read and then tried to comment usefully on their blog...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningRecommended Reading, Viewing, Clicking (Part 3)
Editor's note: Global Kids does a stellar job each month pointing us to key resources. We are not Waiting for Superman, We are Empowering Superheroes (Presentation) Social entrepreneur and learning researcher Diana...
Categories: Edtech, Equity
