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Digital Fluency: Empowering All Students
Although “digital literacy” is often a phrase associated with programs that have utopian pedagogical visions, it also can become a term attached to rigid curricular requirements, standardized testing, and models of education...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Media, Learning, and the Future
New research findings from a global study of education systems suggest that the promise of a hi-tech, high-skills, high-wage future for kids is a fantasy. Does digital media and learning offer a...
Category: Digital LearningLearning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online
This is a golden age for motivated self-learners, given the availability of open educational resources - from MIT's OpenCourseWare, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and YouTube EDU to the Khan Academy and Apple's iTunes U,...
Category: Digital LearningMultiliteracies and Designing Learning Futures
Multiliteracies is an area of interest for me and my classroom, and I am hoping to use this post for dialogue and collective theory-building. But first, I want to talk briefly about...
Category: Digital CitizenshipBesides being a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, Roger Ebert is a serious reader, and in a recent post on his blog, he blasts a "retelling" of The Great Gatsby that dumbs...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWhat do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
The recent launch of Google+, a new social network, has caused ripples in many different online spaces. From talk of it being a ‘Facebook killer’ because of its enhanced privacy settings to...
Category: Digital CitizenshipGreat Resources (July): Assessment, Youth Culture, Games & Learning
Do we need badges, specifically badges for learning? In recent years, the answer has been increasingly, if not exactly “yes” then something more like “we better find out before it’s too late.”...
Category: EdtechGamechanger: Digital Media plus Student-centered, Immersive, Peer-led Learning
In the middle of one of the hottest and driest summers on record, twenty Austin, TX, area high school students showed up for school everyday for four weeks. While the four-week project...
Categories: Connected Learning, Edtech
