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Expanding Women’s Participation for Wikipedia in India: Access to Knowledge
In the past DMLcentral has covered efforts to recruit more women to edit Wikipedia and to produce more women’s studies content. As a blogger, I have presented this story as a relatively...
Category: EquityFreedom, Autonomy, and Digital Media at an Indiana High School
“Freedom and autonomy are the key words for this class,” says Don Wettrick, describing the “Innovations” course he teaches at Franklin Community High School in Franklin, Indiana. I believe these words also...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeUnderstanding Education through Big Data
The seduction of ‘Big Data’ lies in its promise of greater knowledge. The large amounts of data created as a by-product of our digital interactions, and the increased computing capacity to analyse...
Category: EdtechHuman Rights and Social Media in India: Blank Noise
On a recent visit to Sarai, a Delhi research think tank housed in the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, I met a number of female university students who described participating...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityMakers and DML – Separated At Birth?
I have a question for you. What do you think is going on in the photos I'm including in this post? They were taken last month at World Maker Faire NYC. And...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeLibraries as ‘Sponsors of Literacies’: Diving Deep to Expose Narratives & Metanarratives
In my last post “Literacies and Fallacies,” I introduced Deborah Brandt’s conceptual approach of sponsors of literacy that connects individual literacy development to the economic development of literacy. I also shared a...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeiFiasco in LA’s Schools: Why Technology Alone Is Never the Answer
The opening sentence to a recent Los Angeles Times article says it all: It took exactly one week for nearly 300 students at Roosevelt High School to hack through security so they could...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeWhen Students Say They Want to Change the World, Listen: Angela Maiers
Ask any teacher why they teach, and for all their other reasons, I bet they agree that teaching matters. Doing something that matters is being someone that matters. How could young learners...
Category: Civic EngagementPepper Spray and Penguins: Analysis of Turkey’s Social Media-fueled Gezi Protests
The Gezi protests took everyone, including the protesters themselves, by surprise. "This wasn’t what I had planned to do in June at all," said a man in his early 30s to me...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship
