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Arduino and Learning: H.S. Teacher Ariel Simons
A powerful recipe for engaged learning: Show students how to command actions in the physical world – make lights blink, sounds sound, motors move, robots roam, sensors sense. Combine this concrete act...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeReclaim Open Learning Symposium Keynote: “Let the Learning Drive the Technology”
Editor's note: This is a timely curation and storification of the opening session of Reclaim Open Learning by guest blogger Luka Carfagna that we wanted to share (Image credit: Andrew Forgrave, Flickr)[<a...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityDigital Humanists Should Be Copyright Activists
In a recent blog post for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Ben Alpers argues that iBooks Author is not very well suited for humanities learning. I have written before about problems...
Category: Digital CitizenshipIs There Such a Thing as Digital Creativity?
In some ways, this question is of course impossible. Given the difficulty of defining creativity in the first place with scholarship, trying to focus on the distinctions between what is new, what...
Category: Digital LearningClasses recently began in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is the second largest school district in the country, a place where the best practices of digital media and learning face...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityThe Ontology of the Web (Why I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Learning Standards)
At the beginning of 2013 the Mozilla Foundation announced its intention to work with the community to create a new learning standard for Web Literacy. I'm delighted to say that we're well...
Category: Digital CitizenshipUsing Social Media for Women’s Rights: Breakthrough
The horrific Delhi gang rape case in which a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was murdered as a result of a grotesque sexual assault brought tens of thousands of protesters into the streets of...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityDigital Storytelling 106: Open, Participatory, Student-centric, Social…the Future?
Far more important to me than all the venture-capitalized consortia of elite university MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and the hundreds of thousands of students flocking to them is a course taught...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeSocial Media: Brazil’s Indigenous Tribes Go Online in their Struggle To Be Heard
Brazil has several marginalized groups that often don't have a voice in government decision-making and are invisible to the majority of the country’s population. One such group, the country’s indigenous tribes, must...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityCreativity, Criticality and Curriculum Reform in Australia
I was recently at the biannual conference for the Australian teachers of media (ATOM) in Brisbane, Queensland. The teachers, university lecturers, educators and media producers who were at the event were all...
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