I’ve written before about civic education initiatives intended to help model systems of political deliberation in the United States, but with my first trip to Latin America in April for the Humanities,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipMonth: June 2014
New Centers of Data Visualization in Education
Contemporary educational systems, spaces and practices are increasingly represented through digitally-mediated visualizations. Is the increased visibility made possible by visualization practices and technologies also influencing and shaping perceptions of education, and contributing...
Category: EdtechLearner Interest-Driven Curriculum
What most educators would call “subjects” or “disciplines,” Jeff Hopkins, principal of the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry, regards as “silos” when they restrict the scope of learning and nodes of...
Category: Educational PracticeA lot of the work we have been doing as part of the connected learning community has focused on children and young people. We design digital tools that create new ways for...
Category: Connected LearningThe Selfie and the Self: Part 1 – Hiding and Revealing
The inherent tension in the world of the social web is between hiding and revealing. In the post-Snowden era that we live in, there is a collective public anxiety about how much...
Category: Digital CitizenshipReclaiming the Web for the Next Generation
Around this time last year, thanks to the whistleblower Edward Snowden, U.S. citizens found out just how little online privacy they have. For those outside the U.S., the revelations were potentially even...
Category: Digital CitizenshipCreativity and Electronic Invention
“Our current education system is ill-prepared to educate the next generation of creative leaders. Developing every individual’s creative potential will be one of the crucial value-creating factors for leading economies in the...
Category: EdtechBadges For Learning Series, Part 3: A Case Against Standardized Badges
In my first two posts in this series (“My Beef With Badges” and “Getting the Full Picture”), I called on the emerging badging community to stop conflating our aspirations with our achievements...
Category: EdtechExplaining the Research of Connected Learning
The idea of “connected learning” encompasses a way of theorising and describing the kinds of learning that take place against the grain, as it were, in places where we might not usually...
Category: Connected Learning
