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3 Types of EdTech Baggage: Toolsets, Mindsets, Skillsets
Anyone with a background in technology integration will, of course, be familiar with the diffusion of innovation curve. This is a method to explain the way that different groups of people will...
Category: Digital CitizenshipEquitable Connected Learning Requires Diverse Research Perspectives
As a former high school English teacher in two large, urban school districts, I completely understand how educators, parents and policymakers who are wrestling each day with the most pressing issues facing...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityThe Politics of Reticence: Beyond Number Games
Politics by numbers is a funny game. It allows for large structures like universities to reduce the question of diversity, plurality, dissent, and acceptance into quantified rubrics of access, inclusion, and representation....
Category: EquityAir-B-N-Me: Self Representation in the Digital Age
Is your real life anything like your online version of it? How have open networks and social media shaped our perceptions of both ourselves and others? The politics of representation in the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipNew Coke and Transforming American Public Schools
In April of 1985, the Coca-Cola Company announced it was changing the recipe that had been used for 99 years and would now produce a new and improved product. When New Coke came...
Category: Educational PracticeIf you agree that the best teachers help students learn how to think, Dr. Nick Sousanis’ extraordinary hybridization of words and images, “Unflattening,” ought to be one of your texts. Indeed, “unflattening” struck me...
Category: Educational PracticeReassessing Collective Intelligence
“@MichelleFields you are totally delusional”: Collective intelligence in 2016 Back in 2005, Tim O’Reilly, publisher and technology pundit, posted an essay describing “Web 2.0.” In it, O’Reilly attempted to describe what had...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDesigning Youth Participatory Action Research Pathways: Bringing YPAR to DML
Sometimes when you are immersed in a community and surrounded by friends with like-minded interests, beliefs, and ideas, you begin to forget that an entire world that does not understand your lingo...
Category: Digital Learning
