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‘Improving Improvement’ in Education: Louis Gomez, Keynote Speaker for DML2014
While so much attention is focused on improving teaching – the controversy over using text scores as “teacher accountability” measures, for example – isn’t it also important to think about how we...
Category: Educational PracticeHow Might Creative Youth Cultures Understand the Nature of ‘Creativity’?
In this post I want to compare two European research projects that investigated creative production by young people in informal, out-of-school and, to a great extent, self organised contexts. Around the world...
Category: ResearchPhonar: A Massive, Free, Open Photography Class
When asked to explain his attitude toward arts education, British photographer Jonathan Worth describes what he is teaching as “storytelling” that should be an integral part of everyone’s “digital literacy and digital...
Category: Digital LearningThe End of Theory in Digital Social Research?
Computer code, software and algorithms have sunk deep into the “technological unconscious” of our contemporary “lifeworld.” How might this affect academic research in the social sciences and the formation of the professional...
Category: EdtechThe 5 Most Interesting Writing Developments for 2014
It is a common theme to complain about the way that writing (or reading or math) skills are declining as our society becomes increasingly digitized. In this post, I look at some...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningCapabilities of Movements and Affordances of Digital Media: Paradoxes of Empowerment
From the “Indignados” in Spain, to “Occupy” in the United States, from Tahrir Square in Egypt to Syntagma Square in Greece, from Gezi Park in Turkey to #Euromaidan in Ukraine, the recent...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipGoing Beyond ‘Learning to Code’: Why 2014 is the Year of Web Literacy
In January 2012 the Mayor of New York tweeted, along with thousands of other people, that he planned to 'learn to code' during the course of that year. Whether or not he...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning
