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What Constitutes ‘Rigour’ in Our 21st-Century Educational Systems?
Recently Michael Gove, the English Secretary of State for Education, announced the Government's plans to "restore rigour and confidence to our examination system with the introduction of English Baccalaureate Certificates in English,...
Category: Educational PracticeThe Global One-Room Schoolhouse: John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown has been immersed in innovation and learning for the last three decades. As a visiting scholar and adviser to the provost at the University of Southern California, co-chair of...
Category: Educational PracticeOnline Learning and Teaching Writing
For whatever reason, discussions of online education are in the air. Cathy Davidson frequently writes about the challenges facing our education system on this blog, and when a consortium of top universities combined...
Category: Digital LearningThree Conversations for Parents: Navigating Networked Publics
Parenting is hard. Many parents find parenting in an era of social media to be confusing, in part because they must advise their children to make sense of spaces that they don't...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe ‘Presence’ Project and the ‘Be Here Now’ Box: Digital Media and Family Attention
Enthusiasts and skeptics agree that digital media are attention magnets. The Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that one in six Americans admitted to bumping into someone or something while texting,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipI was on a Google hangout with some friends the other day, and we were talking about the thisness and thatness of life. Conversations (as they always do) veered towards books we...
Category: Digital Citizenship‘The Virtual Revolution’: Argentina
I recently returned to the UK from a trip to Argentina. I had been invited to speak about The Virtual Revolution, the television series I presented for BBC2 2010 by the OSDE...
Category: EquityBe.App: Towards Facilitating Curiosity
Many people are talking about (and creating) better ways to do public education. There are amazingly innovative ideas happening. However incredible, they aren't currently equitable; they aren't accessible to all. Imagine if...
Category: EquityLast week, I gave a lecture titled “The Emergence of Digital Civics” at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. I was in South Australia to give another lecture, a joint lecture with Dr....
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship
