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Advancing Access for Digital Youth with Disabilities
“Disability is central to the human experience,” writes Meryl Alper in the opening chapter of her book, “Digital Youth with Disabilities.” The report summarizes how children with disabilities use media for social...
Category: EquityHackerspaces and Homeschooling: Making ‘Startup Schools’
The rapid growth of learning to code clubs, makerspaces, hackerspaces and even makercities has been remarkable. It’s fairly logical, then, that the focus for various coders, makers and hackers has switched back...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeThe family computer recently stopped working. This wouldn’t be the end of the world normally, however, my oldest son’s second-grade classroom implemented a new homework policy. Instead of having homework on paper,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeWhat if we trusted students as a default and dealt with transgressions when and if they come up? What if we gave them web-accessible devices without filters but taught them common sense...
Category: Educational PracticeIs the Maker Movement Equitable?
The title of the article from The Atlantic stopped me in my tracks as I was scrolling through my Twitter feed: “Why I am Not a Maker.” I was perplexed. Why would someone...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, EquityThe Reader in Digital Humanities
The Reader in Paradise Lost DIgital Humanities When Stanley Fish wrote his magnificent treatise on the role of the reader in John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, he was making an argument that the real fallen...
Category: EquityIn my previous DML blog, “Striving for New Ways to Learn How to Learn,” I wrote about co-learning as the heart of the connected learning experience. We have heard quite a bit...
Category: Connected LearningDefining a Participatory Critical Literacy
The screen in the room offered the expected prompt: “What is your definition of critical literacy?”The familiar scratching of pen to paper could be heard throughout the auditorium as ideas were being...
Category: Digital Citizenship
