At the beginning of this month, the Badge Alliance published version 1.1 of the Open Badges specification. This is a technical reference for developers. However, it has exciting, far-reaching pedagogical and social...
Category: EdtechMonth: May 2015
Parenting in a World of Social and Technological Transformation
As educators, policy makers and community activists look to build more equitable futures, a considerable amount of attention remains focused on families, especially parents. Families represent an important node in the learning...
Categories: Equity, ResearchGame Impact: New Report on Field Cohesion
After more than a decade, the field of social impact games may be mature enough to step back and investigate how "impact" is understood. To start the conversation, Games for Change has...
Category: EdtechA recent editorial by Jason Ma in Forbes documents a fascinating array of experiential learning programs. While I am not against experiential learning, it concerned me that Ma made the case for...
Category: Critical PerspectivesAvengers, Privilege and Internet Nerdrage
I want to complain for a minute about a certain Hollywood superhero blockbuster. Then, I want to complain for a minute about people who complain about superhero blockbusters on the Internet. Hypocrite?...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityTeaching The Humanities Online
So many online courses concentrate on hard sciences and practical skills. How about the humanities? Laura Gibbs, who teaches two purely online courses for the University of Oklahoma, most certainly qualifies as...
Category: Digital LearningCollaborative Thinking Through Writing, Libraries, Markerboards
How might mediums for writing in school libraries be opportunities to grow academic literacies for students across different grades and academic tracks? How might these opportunities to engage in both individual and...
Categories: Educational Practice, ResearchTeaching Urban Digital Literacy Outside Schools, Part 3
World making or world building as a pedagogical activity emphasizes authoring entire environments and systems collaboratively rather than merely having students compose one discrete text at a time in isolation. A few...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational Practice
