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Watchworthy Wednesday: Virtual Field Trip Delves into Museum Science
With a camera that sees infrared light pointed at a centuries-old painting by artist Jan Provost, the original sketch underneath appears. The x-rayed image shows how different the original drawing was from...
Category: Digital LearningIBM, Pearson and the Cognitive Infrastructure of Education
The world’s largest edu-business, Pearson, partnered with one of the world’s largest computing companies, IBM, at the end of October 2016 to develop new approaches to education in the “cognitive era.” Their...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsToward a Pedagogy of Repair and Care
Note: This is the introduction to a four-part mini-series that looks at a growing dissonance between the politics that we espouse in our classes and the realities that our students observe in...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: Gratitude Increases Well-being
As Americans gather to celebrate Thanksgiving Day tomorrow, people around the globe can take part in giving thanks through free online projects that aim to boost well-being and resilience year-round. Crowd-Sourced Gratitude...
Category: Digital CitizenshipLesson Ideas for Mobile Learning
I knew that I had to talk with Shelly Sanchez Terrell again when I learned through the tweetvine that she had a new book out about mobile learning (Learning to Go: Lesson...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeThe Importance of Imagination, Part 1
On the morning after election day, I tweeted: https://twitter.com/MiaZamoraPhD/status/796324255684296704 Shocked, exhausted, and profoundly heartbroken, I knew to meet the day with the universal mandate for good parenting: to serve as my children’s...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningWatchworthy Wednesday: Letters for the 45th President
Gun control, immigration, education, abortion and police brutality are among the top issues that young people care about and want President-elect Donald J. Trump to care about, too. As part of the...
Category: Civic Engagement4 Lessons from the Election for Educational Researchers
I get that there are going to be a lot of think pieces about what this means and what we need to do (I posted immediate repercussions of the election for teachers...
Category: Educational PracticeLanguage, Gaming and Possibilities
Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with game designer Kathryn Hymes about language, agency, and world building. As one half of the gaming company Thorny Games (with Hakan Seyalioglu), Kathryn is...
Category: EdtechWatchworthy Wednesday: iCivics Game Delivers Lessons on U.S. Presidency
As Donald Trump was declared president elect early this morning, the website iCivics debuted a new edition of Executive Command, an animated educational game aimed at teaching kids all about the role...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EdtechDOI Finds Open Access Research
One of the best things to come out of Open Access Week was the oaDOI tool by Impactstory. If you are unfamiliar with the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system, it provides a...
Category: Edtech9 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Educational Games
I’ve been teaching educational game design for a few semesters now as part of a module of a Creative Thinking and Problem Solving liberal arts course at my institution. I started out...
Category: EdtechWatchworthy Wednesday: How to Make Digital Civic Change
The Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network has debuted a new website, featuring its “Action Frame” — 10 questions designed to guide young people on how to make civic change in this...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship
