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Creating Culturally Sensitive Solutions to Digital Violence
As web materials for the Center for Solutions to Online Violence go live this month, at DML Central we are continuing to run profiles of those who participated in the DML Competition...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: iPadpalooza Pizzazz
During the mini-keynotes at iPadpalooza over the summer, George Couros, author of “The Innovator’s Mindset,” talked about a kid who made a YouTube video, hoping somebody would see it. When he gets...
Category: Digital CitizenshipIn a recent trip to Sub-Saharan Africa, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent time seeing up close the country’s burgeoning technology and social innovation-driven ecosystem. During his visit to countries like Nigeria and Nairobi, Zuckerberg...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityVirtually Connecting at #2016DML
I am pleased to report that the upcoming Digital Media and Learning Conference (to be held at the University of California, Irvine on Oct. 5-7) is slated as rich ground for Virtually...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital CitizenshipWatchworthy Wednesday: Brokering Learning Opportunities
A new initiative — Building Youth Pathways in Computer Science and Digital Making (CS-Paths) — has been launched in an effort to support teens in computing and digital making programs. CS-Paths, a...
Category: Educational Practice‘Compojing’: Writing with Emoji for Fun and Profit
Over the past year and a half, I have been working closely with a group of researchers and teachers in Northern Colorado on a co-designed curriculum project called Compose Our World. While...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Literacy, Identity and a Domain of One’s Own
I must have about 10 domain names. That's a lot less than some people I know, but 10 more than most people. Two of the domain names are those that I own...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWatchworthy Wednesday: New Series Features Extraordinary Women
Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in Russia. When she was 15, her father tried to force her to get married and when she refused, he threw her French grammar book in...
Category: EquityA Conversation About Screen Time
I raised a millennial who is now in her 30s. We dealt with the fact that she did her homework while engaging in multiple instant-message conversations and watching television in the background....
Category: Digital CitizenshipCritical Educational Questions for Big Data, Part 2
I started a list of critical questions for big data in education earlier this week. This is a big topic, raising lots of big questions and serious topics and problems for further...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, EdtechWatchworthy Wednesday: The 5 Most Needed 21st Century Skills
As the third annual Character Day approaches Sept. 22, the nonprofit Let it Ripple Film Studio will be featuring “The Adaptable Mind,” an 11-minute exploration of the five skills we need most...
Category: Digital CitizenshipCritical Educational Questions for Big Data
Big data has arrived in education. Educational data science, learning analytics, computer adaptive testing, assessment analytics, educational data mining, adaptive learning platforms, new cognitive systems for learning and even educational applications based...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Edtech, New TrendsGeneric v. Specialized Tools in Assignments
I would like to share my thinking process for designing an assignment for my class this semester and hopefully this will be beneficial to others as well. I have an idea to...
Categories: Digital Learning, Edtech
