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Recommended Resources: Mobile Learning, Digital Activism, Multitasking
Professor of urban planning, Amy Hillier, recently spoke at TEDxPhilly to talk about how data visualization technology can map a city’s emotions and memories. Geographic Information System (G.I.S.) technology has become more...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EdtechDigital Gaming as a Vehicle for Deep Learning
Mark Chen is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Washington in the LIFE Center and Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (UWISME). He is working with the Center for Game Science...
Category: EdtechBasta! Telling Stories About Occupy Wall Street
Media activists Marisa Jahn and Julian Rubinstein recently joined us at the Center for Civic Media for our weekly Civic Media Lunch series. Marisa is the new director of the People’s Production...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipSteve Hargadon: Reimagining Education as Networked, Participatory, Social, Global
Steve Hargadon is the Charlie Rose of technology, learning and teaching. On his website, the Future of Education, he has interviewed everyone: from Clay Shirky to Diane Ravitch to Ken Robinson to...
Category: Digital LearningForgotten Places: How Digital Media Can Help Support Small, Rural Communities
Sean McCarthy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin, in the Digital Literacies and Literatures concentration. His dissertation explores the intersection between community literacy...
Category: Digital CitizenshipBased on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’...
Category: EquityFour Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide
Over the last couple of years, I've laid awake at night asking myself uncomfortable questions about bullying and teen suicide. I don't have answers to most of the questions that I have,...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityAdolescent Identity Formation in a Digital Age
Katie Davis is a Project Manager at Harvard Project Zero, where she works with Dr. Howard Gardner in examining the role that digital media technologies play in the lives of adolescents. Her...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDigital Literacy: Search Algorithms are Mechanical Turks
One of the most pervasive features of computing culture are algorithms, the sets of processes or instructions contained in computer code that determine how a particular task will be completed. While algorithms...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThinking about Failure: Ways to Tell New Stories about Public Education
Maybe it's because progress reports at my high school were recently given to students, but lately I've been thinking about the role of failure in schools. The F-word, here and its corresponding...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeYoung Black Males, Learning, and Gaming
Betsy DiSalvo is a Human Centered Computing PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing looking at the ways in which culture impacts technology, and how we can...
Categories: Edtech, Equity
