Topic: Digital Learning

Lifelong Kindergarten: Q&A with Mitch Resnick

Mimi Ito, director of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, interviews Mitch Resnick, the director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, about his new book, "Lifelong Kindergarten:...

The Art of Screen Time: Q&A with Anya Kamenetz

Mimi Ito, director of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, interviews Anya Kamenetz about her latest book, “The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real...

Personal Story: Scott Glass

High school English teacher Scott Glass of Glenbrook South in the suburbs of Chicago had always been interested in art and creating, but didn’t do a lot of it himself until he...

Personal Story: Bryan Alexander

If you want to learn about the best ways to apply digital media to learning, catch a glimpse of where educational institutions are going, and hear it all from someone who walks...

Personal Story: Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel, executive director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington and director of the Hybrid Pedagogy and Digital Pedagogy Lab, recalls starring in a...

DML2016: Call for Participation

Digital Media and Learning Conference 2016 | October 5-7, 2016 | University of California, Irvine Accepting applications: Monday, February 22, 2016 – Monday, April 4, 2016 Notifications of Acceptance: May 2016 Join...

Personal Story: Paola Ricaurte Quijano

Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Professor and researcher in the School of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities ITESM at University Tecnológico, Monterrey, Mexico – a huge private university with 90,000 students at more than...

Personal Story: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa, director of learning for Hanover School Division in Manitoba, Canada, remembers how he was first drawn the pedagogical potential of the Internet. When he noticed that the professional development day...

Personal Story: Brianna Crowley

Pennsylvania high school English teacher Brianna Crowley’s path to becoming a connected educator started with a search for connection: “About five years ago, I started feeling restless. I felt as if there...

Personal Story: Yuri Doolan

"It's the traditional Bollywood romance: extravagant costumes, dancing and singing. Except for the lovers' genders. This year, Northwestern's Hindi Film Dance team Anubhav is telling the tale of a man's struggle with...

Ebooks Explore Digital Media & Learning

A series of eBooks available for free download goes behind the research in the field of digital media and learning to show how young people learn, play, and participate in the world...

Aspen Institute Task Force Final Report

On June 17, the Aspen Institute Task Force on Learning and the Internet released its final report entitled Learner at the Center of a Networked World. After a year of countless discussions and...

Learning with Social and Mobile Media

PRESENTATION: Learning with Social and Mobile Media: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure and Messing Around Online PRESENTER: Mimi Ito EVENT: MobilityShifts DATE: October 10, 2011 In October 2011, Mimi Ito spoke...

DS106: Enabling Open, Public, Participatory Learning

Digital Storytelling 106 — better known as "ds106" — sprouted in 2010 as a computer science class on digital storytelling at University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Founded by Jim Groom,...