“Badges are plots by for-profit institutions to disrupt state-funded higher education. It's all about money and trying to turn a public good into a privatized for-profit revenue stream. You need to get...
Category: EdtechMonth: March 2014
Spritz is a startup that wants to change how people read on small screens. The startup has created an app that feeds texts to readers one word at a time, arranged so...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EdtechTheory of Knowledge, Social Media and Connected Learning in High School
I’m an advocate of cultivating and tuning the network of people I follow on Twitter, a practice that includes my willingness to respond to those I didn’t previously know who solicit my...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningGaming and New Gender Paradigms
Previously, I’ve written about role-playing racial history through digital games, so it is perhaps not surprising that I would be interested in an Ellis Island MMORG or a game about the Harlem...
Categories: Edtech, EquityThe Rise of Writing Literacies, Implications for Libraries
The look of any library — school, academic, or public — is always dependent on local needs in a community, but the feature that has traditionally characterized all types of libraries is...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital CitizenshipDon't get me wrong. I love badges, digital badges for learning. And I don't mean just for some hoped-for potential to transform the learning landscape. I mean I love them for what...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, EdtechThe Great Peer Learning Pyramid Scheme
I often get asked questions like these: Does peer learning really work? Don’t we need experts to learn from? Can the (proverbially) blind really lead the blind? Those are good questions and...
Category: Educational PracticeTeaching in the Connected Learning Classroom: New Report
Last week saw the release of Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom, a free Connected Learning report I edited. I’m hoping you’ll spend some time reading it — it features a plethora...
Category: Connected LearningFeminist Theory, Online Action, and Networked Learning
“It’s not just about studying and learning,” says Pitzer College student Susanna Ferrell. “It’s also about activism,” adds fellow student Jade Ulrich, both of whom were beta testers for a Distributed Open...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning
