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Datafication: How the Lens of Data Changes How We See Ourselves
Digital media allow us to produce, collect, organise and interpret more data about our lives than ever before. Our every digital interaction contributes to vast databases of information that index our behaviour...
Category: EdtechHoward Gardner: Digital Technology and A Well-Rounded Education
As digital technologies become daily staples in both our personal and professional lives, there's been much discussion among educators and community leaders as to whether these devices and innovations could in some...
Category: Digital LearningThe Network Society After Web 2.0: What Students Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street
Web 2.0 is a common buzzword used to describe social media. The term gained traction in the mid-2000s to describe a change in the way people interacted with media online. Rather than...
Category: Digital CitizenshipMentoring: The Gift of Validation
This short film explores a fundamental ingredient of learning and human potential: mentoring. Its potential is arguably even more pronounced today because of our ability to connect with others who share our...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeCommunity Innovation Lab: Mashups of Youth, Activists, Technologists, Policymakers
If you seek examples of civic engagement by young people, look no further than the Community Innovation Lab, a mashup of Harvard students and faculty, the city of Boston, and established neighborhood...
Category: Civic EngagementMaking + Playing + Understanding = Learning
We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew to make a series of short films that explores the underlying thinking of our six principles of connected learning: interests, peers, youth as producers, networks, shared purpose...
Category: Connected LearningTo Hasten Equity…Scale the Individual
Public education could be the most accelerating venue for social change. Rather than waiting for any of the incredible [past, current and ongoing] innovations in redefining public education to scale, imagine we...
Category: EquityOn Digital Badging, Edge Work, 12 Lessons After 12 Years
For two years I have worked with my team at Global Kids to highlight some of the best online resources that inspire digital media and learning projects. It has been some time,...
Category: EdtechDigital maps allow us to map our journeys across times and places, linking virtual information to physical locations. What do digital maps teach us about how to see the world and our...
Category: Edtech
