How Can VR be Used for Learning?
The hype around virtual reality (VR) has died down a bit, though the conference keeps going. I was happy to attend the Versions conference earlier this year, though I was disappointed (but...
Category: EdtechMonth: April 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: Apply to Present at DML2017 by May 1
Got an innovative program or research project dealing with connected learning or digital media and learning? We want to hear about it at this year’s Digital Media and Learning Conference, and the...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityDoes Digital Media Have a Place in Hands-On Science Learning Space?
I reached out to Rebecca Bray, the chief of experience development at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., to learn about how the museum developed and now runs...
Categories: Digital Learning, EdtechRescuing Student Participation Through Digital Platforms
Like many of my colleagues who think carefully about digital literacy and pedagogies, I began seriously considering the use of social media platforms in educational settings — sites like Twitter, Facebook, and...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: How AI Will Transform Medical Practice
Armed with reams of data, a patient’s father convinced Dr. Anthony C. Chang, his daughter’s pediatric cardiologist, to proceed with her surgery. “A data scientist, the father of one of my congenital...
Category: New TrendsCritical Literacy, Civic Engagement and Connected Learning in the Classroom
I am on a personal crusade to make civic education the responsibility of every teacher regardless of subject area, despite the fact that it is consistently assumed to be the concern of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected LearningTurning Bullies Into Leaders Through Writing
When their writing is read and praised by others, “bullies become class leaders — they want attention, acknowledgement, appreciation. In this case, appreciation of creative risk.” Journalist-turned educator Geoffrey Gevalt is speaking...
Category: Digital LearningWatchworthy Wednesday: UCI Dreamers Take a Stand, Help Each Other
As a junior computer science major at the University of California, Irvine, she felt “hopeless” watching fellow classmates landing scholarships, federal financial aid and paid internships. “I could not do the same...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, EquityThe 2017 NCES report “Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering” notes that the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities (WMPD) in science and engineering fields does...
Category: EquityScreen Time for Kids: Getting the Balance Right
From digital homework platforms to extended video chats with friends, from remote working to family WhatsApp groups, there are infinite ways that digital media are becoming integrated into both children’s and parents’...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWatchworthy Wednesday: How You Could Win $250,000 for Being Disobedient
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words — “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” — open MIT’s Media Lab video, inviting nominations for its Rewarding Disobedience Award. The award, which comes...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EquityThe most recent series of the popular conspiracy drama “Homeland” features a shadow intelligence agency dedicated to producing and circulating fake news and computational propaganda via fake social media user accounts. Run...
Category: Digital Citizenship
