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George Couros: Why School Administrators Should Embrace the Social Web
By encouraging administrators to become learner-leaders, to use social media to connect with each other, share best practices and experiment, Canadian school principal George Couros is leading by example, exhortation, and instigation...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Digital CitizenshipThe Challenge of Teaching Networked Writing
In my last post I wrote about what Derek Mueller calls the "digital underlife," the writing practices of students that fall below the radar of classroom practice, but which are crucial ways in...
Category: Digital LearningShould We Fear Children Accessing Facebook?
In recent months, there has been an intense media and policy vortex surrounding the questions of when and how children – especially those under 13 – should gain access to popular online...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital CitizenshipOn the Importance of Webmaking
I’ve come to realize over the last couple of years just how important the Open Web is for online innovation. It’s a standards-based platform that allows anyone to use relatively low-cost technologies...
Category: Digital LearningIn March of this year, as I taught my winter lecture class that focuses on Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online, I began to receive urgent e-mails from students about a viral...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EquityPortoAlegre.cc: Giving A City Back to Its Citizens
Several new projects are trying to use cyberspace as a platform to help citizens build an information network and share information about their cities. One effort that has achieved significant traction is...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipWorthy Reads: Mobile Learning, Flipped Lessons, New Media Literacies
Fast Company magazine recently featured this article, from design studio Frog’s Fabio Sergio, on how mobile devices will provide learning opportunities for people across age and income spectrums. It offers a nice...
Category: Digital LearningA Vision for Learning Designed by Youth for Youth: Notice. Dream. Connect. Do. Be.
The basics as defined by school is a very limited and restrictive set of skills. The word basic is often referred to as essential. Essential translates to absolutely necessary or extremely important....
Category: Connected Learning
