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Innovators, Not Hackers: Stop Portraying Youth as Digital Deviants
Why is it that when young people use technology on adult terms, they are praised as 21st century learners, but when they use technology on their OWN terms, they are castigated as...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityCalculating the Child Through Technologies of the ‘Quantified Self’
The concept of the ‘quantified self’ has become the focus of global interest. Less acknowledged is the emergence of a range of technological devices and apps designed specifically for children to track,...
Category: EdtechDuring the past week, I have been busy. I know this because my phone tells me so. Each night, before I go to bed, I check my schedule for the next day —...
Category: Digital CitizenshipP-Tech Schools: The Remaking of Career, Technical Education
For nearly four decades, economists have been discussing what is generally referred to as skill-biased technical change. That is, the degree to which technological transformations — computerization and automation — privileges high-skill...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeDigital-Age Civics: Media Makes a Difference
If you caught Joe Kahne’s recent post, you’ll know something about a concept that’s also central to my latest mini-book. As a member of the MacArthur Foundation-backed research network Joe chairs, I’m...
Category: Digital CitizenshipStudent empowerment is the strongest connective theme through the 55 posts and interviews I’ve conducted for this blog. The educators I’ve interviewed all have one characteristic in common: they all enable students...
Category: Educational PracticeA single question — “How are young people changing socially in terms of how they learn and how they civically engage because of digital media?” — launched the John D. and Catherine...
Category: Connected LearningProductivity and Play in Digital Media and Learning
A new report from the Technology & Social Change Group at the University of Washington’s Information School argues that, in the context of learning, using computers and other communication technologies for play is...
Category: EdtechBadges For Learning Series, Part 2: Getting The Full Picture
In my previous post, “My Beef With Badges,” I called on the emerging badging community to stop conflating our aspirations with our achievements, and to start sharing a more accurate picture of...
Categories: Edtech, Research
