There 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 PracticeBlog Posts
Connected 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 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
