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How the Occupy School Movement is Pushing Connected Learning in Brazil
It’s 7 a.m. and a high school student wakes up on a week day. Instead of getting ready to take the bus to school, he is already there with his classmates. This is a...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected LearningWatchworthy Wednesday: Opportunity to Provide Computer Ed in K-12 Schools
Want to provide a computer science and computational thinking education project in K-12 schools? Teams of educators, researchers, community members and others interested in doing so are being offered the chance to...
Category: Digital LearningCreating a Safe Space for Women in STEM
As part of our continuing series that profiles members involved with the Center for Solutions to Online Violence, which was the recipient of funding from the Digital Media and Learning Trust Challenge,...
Category: EquityWhat World of Warcraft Teaches About Misinformation
A recent study from Stanford University cited that 82 percent of middle schoolers can’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored news” and a real news story. The authors of the study cited that...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, ResearchWatchworthy Wednesday: CLA Debuts Newsletter
The Connected Learning Alliance has debuted a weekly e-mail newsletter, featuring updates from the blog of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub and the greater CLA and DML community. Its mission is simple: to...
Category: Connected LearningHow Well are we Preparing Students for the Future of Work?
As a former history teacher, it makes me laugh and cry that so many prominent figures in education (especially education technology) have such a poor understanding of the history of their subject....
Category: Educational PracticeThe DigitalLearningification of Museums
This past October, I had the pleasure of presenting in Irvine, California at the new home for the Digital Media and Learning Conference on digital learning at museums. With my colleagues Eve...
Categories: Digital Learning, New TrendsWatchworthy Wednesday: Survey Analyzes Plugged-in Parents
While 8- to 18-year-olds are clocking in lots of screen time, their parents are doing the same if not more, according to a new survey, measuring parental media use. The study by...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, ResearchIn my last post, I drew from my classrooms to suggest that the biggest challenges that the emergence of new political structures of hatred and vengeance posit is to our pedagogies. Finding a...
Category: Educational PracticeCritical Civic Innovation in Action via PhotoVoice
In the wake of last month’s election, many Americans of all backgrounds are fearful about the direction in which the U.S. will be heading under President-elect Trump in areas ranging from education...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EquityWatchworthy Wednesday: New Report Features Connected Learning in Libraries
In their just released research report, “Connected Libraries: Surveying the Current Landscape and Charting a Path to the Future,” scholars from the University of Maryland and University of Washington examine the different...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityPracticing the Principles of Connected Learning
I’ve met and profiled active contributors for years, but Kevin Hodgson has to be one of the most active co-learners I’ve encountered. He was part of my Twitter personal learning network, but...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeExploring 3 Models of Digital Literacy
The New Media Consortium, the group behind the annual Horizon reports on the impact of technology on learning, has produced a short report on digital literacy. The report is based on a...
Category: Digital Citizenship
