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A Triptych on Changing Language, Changing Minds
Reading the Comments “Go home you stupid illegal.” I heard it a lot in 2014. As part of a larger effort protesting the racist name of a local eatery, I was struck...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EquityLauna Hall’s recent essay in the Washington Post describes her misgivings and concerns about her third-grade students using ipads in the classroom. Hall describes a handful of arresting moments when her students’...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeThe Learning Village of Our Hybrid Reality
If you are reading this, you have a hybrid life. There are things that you encounter and find meaning in or meaningful both offline and digitally. The device you are reading this...
Category: EdtechWhat the Connected Learning Research Community Can Learn from YPAR
Last month, the two of us (along with our mentor, Dr. Ernest Morrell) celebrated the release of our book, Doing Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Inquiry with Researchers, Educators, and Youth. The...
Categories: Connected Learning, Equity, ResearchSelfie Pedagogy IV: Diversity, Netprov and Service Learning
We profiled Mark Marino of the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab at USC on this blog five years ago in a post about innovative approaches to service learning. In 2015, we wanted to...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeSeeking Meaning Through Connected Learning
As we close out 2015, I would like to engage the notion of “connection” for a moment. What does this word mean to all of us in the Connected Learning community? Exactly...
Category: Connected LearningWe have been reflecting lately on the significance of our network in helping us learn and grow as scholars, as teachers, and as co-learners. Often, people associate the term network with the...
Category: Digital LearningLearning The Terms of Digital Literacy
Often when we talk about digital literacy, we are speaking about giving students the tools they need to be successful in a digitally-augmented world. In learning digital literacy, students also learn the...
Category: Digital CitizenshipProviding Museum Access to All Through Open Badging
When the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) a few years ago announced it was doing away with museum membership (gasp!), it made big news. Its membership was replaced with an open-badging system...
Categories: Edtech, Research
