The Power of Decentralization in the MOOC
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of four blogs on digital technology (Part 1, Part 3). Nishant Shah’s Annotation: In the last entry, I had suggested that instead of...
Category: Digital LearningMonth: July 2015
Advancing New Forms of Scholarship in Writing
I continue to think a great deal about how new media has grown the possibilities of our collective academic work. As the director of a Masters in Writing Studies Program at Kean...
Category: Digital LearningThe Role of Technology in Digital Learning
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of four blogs on digital learning (Part 2, Part 3). In their accidental and ironic hit Youtube song, “What does the Fox say?”,...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningBook Lacks Digital Reading Details
The goal of “Words Onscreen,” Naomi S. Baron’s new book, is to account for the ways that “digital reading is reshaping our understanding of what it means to read” (p. xii). Baron...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSetting an Agile School Rhythm
When I moved out of the classroom a few years ago, one of the things I missed immediately was the imposed rhythm of the school year. There's something inherently useful about knowing...
Category: EdtechA Call for Algorithmic Studies
Digital technology and its modes of production, representation, distribution, and circulation remodel the conditions of possibility: the definition of Being, the structuring of the Social, the instrumentalization of the Political, the animation of the Cultural. They re-tool...
Category: EdtechOpen Networked News Curriculum
Newsactivist was born when Gabriel Flacks, instructor and chair of the Humanities Program at Saint-Lambert Champlain Regional College in Montreal, started looking for ways that students could write about the news in...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital LearningEating Robots: Data Diets and Hungry Algorithms
What do robots eat? Contemporary digital data analytics systems feed on a diet of data produced through human activity. Through this feeding, robotic machines receive the informational nutrition required for their own...
Categories: Edtech, Research
