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Learning Pathways: Descriptive or Prescriptive?
A few months ago, in a post entitled Scaffolding Web Literacy Through Learning Pathways, I differentiated between training pathways ("a series of steps that lead to the individual being able to reproduce knowledge or...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeLet’s Ban Bans in The Classroom
It’s starting to seem like there is a new ritual being performed at the beginning of each new semester: debating the use of technology in the classroom. In these debates, “technology” almost...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational Practice, ResearchTeaching Urban Digital Literacy Outside School, Part 1
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series highlighting different programs that teach digital literacy outside of school. Under the auspices of the Mayor’s Office of New York City, Global...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeAssessing, Measuring Connected Learning Outcomes
Although the preponderance of publicity about Massive Open Online Courses has focused on well-funded enterprises such as Coursera and Udacity, and superstars of what is mostly an online version of a lecture...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningLearning with Twitter Chats and Socratic Seminars in Virtual Spaces
My fellow librarian Jennifer Lund and I had the opportunity recently to partner with IB Theory of Knowledge teachers Dan Byrne and Dr. James Glenn. Our instructional design challenge was to think...
Category: Digital LearningEditor's note: The following post is a summary of a provocation delivered at the Umeå University HUMlab's "Genres of Knowledge Production" conference on Dec. 10, 2014. (Watch video, starting at 14:18)1. PlatformsThat...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDesigning a More Connected World
It has become increasingly clear that youths' experiences in schools do not match the kinds of experiences they are likely to have once they have completed school. The push to support "21st...
Category: EdtechMobile Money, Financial Literacy and Learning Through Digital Media
The fact that a cellular telephone can transmit the value of a particular currency from one party to another may be increasingly obvious, given the rise of specialized digital money services in...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThe United States Census Bureau has been tracking computer use since 1984 and the use of the Internet since 1997. Not surprisingly, much has changed over that span of time. Even though...
Categories: Educational Practice, Equity
