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Reading Comprehension: Paper or Screen?
In a recent post, I critiqued the claims in Ferris Jabr's Scientific American article, "Why the Brain Prefers Paper" that addressed the differences in comprehension between reading from paper and reading from...
Category: ResearchDefending the Humanities in the Digital Age
Taking Care of Things: Reclaiming What is Lost in Our Defence of Humanities[1] If this were a book, this section would be the preface. If it were an academic paper, a footnote. If...
Category: Digital CitizenshipMaking Academic Research Purposeful, Accessible in Connected Learning Era
Two weeks ago, the Internet squabbled in the hoopla that resulted from author J.K. Rowling’s admission that she thought her titular character Harry Potter should have ended up with know-it-all sidekick, Hermione....
Category: Connected LearningExploring Digital Media and Museum-based Learning
As part of my efforts to explore the intersection of digital media and museum-based learning, here is list of items I’ve recently tweeted. I start with the most general and drill down...
Category: EdtechMeaningful Integration: Optimistic About iPads in Schools
Late last year, my colleague Thomas Philip and I discussed why we were so troubled by the ways the Los Angeles Unified School District bumbled its way through adopting iPads for its...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeRolezinhos: Flash Mobs, Social Media and Teens
A new movement — the "rolezinhos" (meaning something like "hang out somewhere" or “little strolls”) — has taken hold in Brazil. Through social media, the rolezinhos started as a simple call for...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityWhy Technology Alone Can’t Fix the Education Problem
For more than a decade now, I’ve internally cringed whenever someone talks about the promise of technology in education. Often, discussions of iPads, video games, laptops for all focus on the potential...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeRe-imagining the Where, When, and How of Educational Practice
"Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didn't change." (Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational Practice
