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What Ancient Greek Rhetoric Might Teach Us About New Civics
A great deal of our conversation lately has focused on getting governments to open up their data and to share what they know with the general public. We are beginning to see...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipAssessment: Turning a Blunt Instrument Into a Powerful Learning Tool
It’s ironic that assessment in schools is most often “something adults do to students,” as Rick Stiggins puts it, because all humans are highly evolved for learning, and self-assessment is a powerful...
Category: Educational PracticeLearning and the Emerging Science of Behavior Change, aka ‘Nudging’
The language of learning today is full of references to “softness” and “openness.” Software, soft skills, soft performance, and the softening up of school knowledge go hand-in-hand with open source, open access...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityThe Social Relevance of Public Writing
I want to talk about the nature of writing in today's age of participatory media. In particular, I want to talk about how writing within my classroom has helped foster community amongst...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningBefore the presidential election took place this week, many teachers used attention to the political drama unfolding across the nation as a way to draw students into classroom discussions and assignments. Lesson...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EdtechContextualizing Big Data and Lessons for DML
Recently I had the opportunity to go to the Internet Research 13.0 (IR13) conference hosted by the University of Salford. One popular theme of the conference was the increasingly important role that...
Category: EdtechConnected Learning: The Experience of Education Reimagined
We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew to make a series of short films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called "courageous" and "transformational." This film introduces the story of connected...
Category: Connected Learning
