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Watchworthy Wednesday: Challenge Calls on Kids to Design Math Games
The objective of “Get That Pi,” a board game designed by a trio of students from a New Jersey intermediate school, is to earn money by correctly answering circumference or area questions...
Category: EdtechPlatform Capitalism in the Classroom
Platform capitalism is the new global business model in an age of social media platforms, big data analytics and tech-centered venture capital investment. The big platform operators, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and...
Category: EdtechWatchworthy Wednesday: How Video Games Amplify Learning
As a leading scholar of video games, game culture and game player behavior, Constance Steinkuehler argues that games amplify learning and academics. In fact, video games and esports “leverage and require an...
Categories: Edtech, ResearchWhat Do We Mean When We Talk About 21st Century Learning?
The signifier “21st century” has become ubiquitous in educational policy discourse. A glance at most local, state, and national education plans reveals reference after reference to the need for “21st century schools”...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: Playing with Realities
The new Bloomsbury book, “Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay,” prompted its editors Antero Garcia and Greg Niemeyer to offer a symposium about augmented reality games and how they...
Category: New TrendsTurning Teaching Over to Students
Michael Wesch’s YouTube videos gave me the courage — and the ideas — to turn more and more of the responsibility for not just learning, but teaching, over to my students. Like most great...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeWatchworthy Wednesday: Free Online Class Features Art of Being Human
On what he thought would be a cool class lecture, Kansas State University Professor Michael Wesch set out on a 41-mile run, while at the same time, controlling a video camera in...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeLearning from Brain-machine Interfaces
“Neurotechnology” is a broad field of technical research and development focused on the human brain. It includes advanced brain imaging but also new and emerging “brain stimulator” systems that may have the capacity...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsUsing Mobile VR to Convey WONDER
Last year, I was gob-smacked on a trip to D.C. by the temporary WONDER exhibit at the Renwick Gallery (and wrote about it here). Last fall, I was excited to see the...
Category: EdtechWatchworthy Wednesday: Listen to Youth to Improve Education
Christopher Emdin, associate professor of science education at Columbia University, Teachers College, opened his keynote address at this year’s SXSWedu (South by Southwest Education) Conference with a little history of the Dinka...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityAre Digital Literacies Generic or Context-specific?
I was recently asked by Sally Pewhairangi whether I thought digital literacies could be taught as generic skills, out of any particular context, and whether they would then transfer. When I was...
Category: Digital Citizenship
