Two weeks ago, I gave the opening keynote at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in Chicago. The conference, which explores how digital media is and could be changing education and learning, focused...
Category: Civic EngagementMonth: March 2013
In Praise of Peer to Peer Connectivity: Technosociologist Zeynep Tufekci
Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist who uses, as well as studies, social media, offers a refreshingly rigorous and empirically-scaffolded perspective amid the frenzy of armchair social science regarding the impact of Twitter, Facebook,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Right to Thrive: Connected Learning at the Digital Edge
A few months ago, I interviewed a former high school teacher and asked him what his hope was for the digital media and learning community in 2013. His answer: to push for...
Category: Connected LearningWe are all quite familiar with interactive writing. Business writing is a nearly constant stream of emails and memos that reply to and reference other texts. Teachers and students engage in a...
Category: Digital CitizenshipRe-Designing Learning For Democracy
Ann Pendleton-Jullian, the architect and educational redesigner, notes that: “Design has the capacity to shape contexts as frames for things to happen.” My excitement at being part of the connected learning movement...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected LearningAre We in Danger of Losing Sight of Urban Schools and their Libraries?
The rhetoric around libraries today is largely filled with enthusiasm in the digital media and learning world. And it probably should be: YOUmedia, makerspaces, and expanding digital opportunities for young people to...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityNavigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era
Last fall, a New York man rented out his apartment bedroom through Airbnb, a popular website for short-term stays. Unbeknownst to him, he was breaking the law. When he returned to his...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Latest in Digital Media, Learning and Museums
The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project published a recent report after surveying the role of the internet and social media within arts organizations that have received grants from the...
Category: Digital LearningIs Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?
Sitting with a group of graduating high school seniors last summer, the conversation turned to college roommates. Although headed off to different schools, they had a similar experience of learning their roommate...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWhy We Need Badges Now: A Bibliography of Resources in Historical Perspective
It was something over a year ago when we first began talking about badges as a powerful new tool for identifying and validating the rich array of people’s skills, knowledge, accomplishments, and...
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