Gaining Some Perspective on Badges for Lifelong Learning
I first read about the idea of Open Badges back in the middle of last year. It excited me. One thing I’ve always been interested in is how to shift the power...
Category: EdtechMonth: March 2012
Webinar: How Can We Disrupt the “Banking” System of Education?
Earlier today, connectedlearning.tv hosted a live webinar with librarian Buffy Hamilton, aka “The Unquiet Librarian,” on the topic: How do libraries cultivate participatory literacy to disrupt what Paulo Freire calls the "banking"...
Category: Connected LearningThe Role of Tech vs The Purpose of Education
Working in the field of digital media and learning, where the important role of new technologies in learning seems self-evident, the slow pace of change in mainstream education can feel frustrating. Responding...
Category: Digital LearningWhat Tech Wants: A People Agenda
I loved Kevin Kelly’s book, and especially loved the message I heard from it. What I heard was that tech wants us to become more humane, not less. What I heard, was...
Category: EquityI recently returned from the engaging and rewarding DML2012 both exhausted and invigorated. As I debrief the many ideas and challenges to existing learning practices that were shared and explored at this...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityReflecting on Dharun Ravi’s Conviction
On Friday, Dharun Ravi -- the Rutgers student whose roommate Tyler Clementi killed himself in a case narrated through the lens of cyberbullying -- was found guilty of privacy invasion, tampering with...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThe Future of Learning and Teaching: It’s Time for ‘Audacious Goals’
In an impassioned call to action, Diana Rhoten kicked off the 2012 Digital Media and Learning conference by suggesting that education will never see its long-overdue renaissance without "audacious goals." Senior vice...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeReflexivity: Why We Must Choose to Shape, and Not Be Shaped By, Technology
In her new book, Consent of the Networked, Rebecca Mackinnon offers a reality check: "We have a problem,” she writes. “We understand how power works in the physical world, but we do...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDistributed Writing: From Bad to Brilliant
In the report "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture" the authors argue that distributed cognition is a key skill that citizens must master to be active in participatory culture. Of course, most...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningIn just its second year, attendance at South by Southwest’s educational branch more than doubled from the inaugural year. SXSWedu offered a broad range of participants and guest speakers, including public K-12...
Category: Educational PracticeReflections on DML2012 and Visions of Educational Change
A few days back home after DML2012, I've been browsing through the blogosphere and tweet streams and reflecting on the various conversations I had at the event. One unfortunate side-effect of being...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityBadges for Learning: Threading the Needle Between Skepticism and Evangelism
There has been much ado the past week or so about whether badges can offer a viable means for assessing learning. It has been boisterous on both sides. Badge evangelists such as...
Category: EdtechConnected Learning: Designed to Mine the New Social, Digital Domain
Focus on education has perhaps never been greater. As we seek to understand the impact of the internet and this age of connection, it has focused attention on a topic of extraordinary...
Category: Connected Learning
