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Educating Educators: Q&A With Connected Learning Advocate Kira Baker-Doyle
Kira J. Baker-Doyle, assistant professor of education at Arcadia University, and her colleagues designed Arcadia’s Connected Learning Certificate program so educators of all levels, from Kindergarten through graduate school, could build a...
Category: Connected LearningCircuit Stickers, Notebook Hacking and Learning as Debugging
I’ve been writing for 45 years, and have always owned more physical notebooks than I need at any one time, and I’m an enthusiastic novice at electronics, so several of my antennae...
Category: EdtechIndieCade, Part 3: Learning from Virtual Reality
Oculus Rift made headlines this year with a development kit for its affordable virtual reality head-mounted display, which comes equipped with sophisticated software that prevents the “simulator sickness” that was so common on...
Category: EdtechWriting in Libraries: Processes and Pathways to Inquiry and Learning
Earlier this year, I wrote about the possibilities for libraries that embrace writing as the literacy of the masses and how libraries might function as more powerful sponsors of literacy if they...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeIndieCade, Part 2: Anxieties About GamerGate
The so-called “GamerGate” controversy about the independent games movement, which has finally reached the pages of the New York Times, has become the big story this fall. I have provided a wrap-up of...
Category: EquityThe Technophobe’s Dilemma: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Glass Cage’
Nicholas Carr is well-known for his work critiquing emerging technologies, particularly his argument that “Google is making us stupid.” In his new book, “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us” (W. W. Norton...
Category: Critical PerspectivesIndieCade, Part 1: Dungeons & Dragons Turns 40
When I was in middle school, there was a group of boys who played war games in the science teacher’s room. I was always envious of them, because it looked like fun, but...
Category: EdtechEmbracing Possibility: Lessons from Mozfest 2014
Two weekends ago, I had the opportunity to help co-“wrangle” a floor for the 2014 Mozilla Festival, better known as Mozfest. Emphasizing the space’s festival-like ethos (as opposed to typical conference drudgery),...
Category: Educational Practice
