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Young Black Males, Learning, and Video Games
A recent report on educational achievement among young black males describes a “national catastrophe” in primary, secondary, and higher education that is reinforced by policy failures and funding shortfalls. “A Call for...
Categories: Edtech, EquityOn Parenting, Media, Education and Phobias
Modern cinema can teach us how youth and media are widely understood in our cultures. Cinema, like works of literature and visual art, can represent and diagnose our widespread fears and fantasies...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWikipedia: Information Source and Knowledge Community
One of the challenges facing the digital media and learning community—in fact, all educators—is the rapid pace of technological development that makes necessary the constant evaluation and investigation of new information and...
Category: Digital LearningWikirriculum: Curriculum in the Digital Age
Developing a school curriculum is a complex act of creative design. Add networked participatory media to the mix and curriculum design gets even more complicated. So, from the perspective of digital media...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeDigital Divides, Blog Bans, Games That Cause Change
Global Kids points us to important new resources in the digital media and learning field each month. "It's how you play the game" (article): Followers of games and education are familiar with...
Categories: Edtech, EquityThere are as many reasons to teach as there are reasons to learn. One reason item-response testing (the twentieth-century’s dominant method of testing) is so deficient is that it tends to reduce...
Category: Educational PracticeConnected They Write: The Lure of Writing on the Web
The massive adoption of digital media in the everyday life of teens has reshaped social and educational practices in Latin America. A digital divide persists but youth are increasingly more connected. In...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityIn literate societies, the idea of teaching someone how to read but not how to write is practically inconceivable. The dual connection between reading and writing is built into the very notion...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSocial Learning, Literacies and Recommended Resources
Paleontologist from American Museum of Natural History shows I Dig Brazil kids images of ancient animals.Editor's note: Global Kids does a great job each month pointing us to excellent new resources.Digital and...
Category: Digital CitizenshipUK Student Protests: Democratic Participation, Digital Age
The stereotypical characterization of young people as politically apathetic, interested only in using digital media for socializing and gaming, has been punctured by recent events in the UK. University and high school...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipMozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning
What if the same energy, ideals, organizational effectiveness, global army of volunteers and code wizardry that created the Firefox web browser could be applied to learning and education? Don't forget that the...
Categories: Educational Practice, Equity“Check-in” Learning and Social Learning Networks
At the core of all of our work at the Digital Youth Network, whether it is understanding the affordances of social learning networks or creating new learner-centered models, is the idea that...
Category: Connected LearningDisrupting Class: A New Age for Learning
Book review: one in an occasional series on works that aspire to reimagine learning in the information age.Let’s start with the shocking news that Disrupting Class authors Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeTop 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 Practice
