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Selfie Pedagogy I: The Digital Humanities and Selfie Culture
Although The New York Times recently profiled the burgeoning development of “selfie scholarship,” the examination of the selfie genre in higher education is actually neither as new nor as radical as it seems....
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeMaking Upstanders in Today’s World
Oppression happens. So, what can students do? How can young people become upstanders (people who stand up for social justice and equality) in their communities? In the fourth of a four-part Connected...
Category: Civic EngagementSoftware and Digital Data in Education
For the last two years, a group of colleagues from across the universities of Stirling, Edinburgh and Bristol have been working with me on a seminar series exploring how code acts in...
Category: Digital LearningDefining Digital Media Across Disciplines
After my last post on designing a course into digital media, I’ve been doing a lot of reflection and work trying to figure out best practices and approaches for defining digital media...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Value of Social Media and Counternarratives
As I write these words, St. Louis County has just declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of protests marking the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death at...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipEnhancing Connected, Distributed Learning
This is the last of the four-part series that draws from our experiences of completing a Mentored MOOC called “Managing the Arts” with the Goethe Institute at the Leuphana Digital School this spring. In...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningMake ‘Em All Geniuses: Redefining Schools, Possibilities, Equity
Not to brag or anything, but I figured out how to solve the academic achievement “problem” plaguing the U.S. today: just treat all of our children like geniuses.Maybe I should elaborate: As...
Category: EquityRethinking the Educator’s Role Toward Distributed Teaching
Editor's note: This blog is the third in a series of four on digital learning (Part 1, Part 2). In our day-to-day work, we come across a vast range of blog entries,...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeLearning English Through Digital Media
Dr. Deborah Cohen, associate professor in the Global Education Innovation Center at Gyeongju University in South Korea, uses three digital media-based practices to encourage her students:YouTube videos such as the inspirational “Never,...
Category: Digital Learning
