The Social Media Classroom, a browser-based, free and open source environment for teaching and learning, grew directly out of the first minutes I stepped into a physical classroom and began to realize...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeMonth: December 2009
Classroom Authority and Twitter
An interesting aspect of Twitter's recent surge in popularity has been how educators have embraced the technology, not just for networking and personal communication, but also in the classroom. Many teachers have...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeDigital Media and Learning Conference 2010
Earlier this year, we issued a call for proposals for panels and presentations for the first Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by...
Category: Digital LearningSocial Games and Facebook in Brazil and Latin America
A recent post from Inside Facebook has shown that Facebook is growing fast in Latin America, and a large part of this growth is happening in Brazil (33 percent each month, according...
Categories: Edtech, ResearchReinterpreting the Digital Divide
digital divide: the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all.The digital divide is understood to be the gap...
Category: EquityOn Gaming, Politics, and Reform
As the new year rolls around, like many political science professors, Kareem Crayton is thinking about the possible repercussions of next year’s 2010 census and what he calls the “opening skirmishes” of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, EdtechMeet Meredith Stewart: Teacher…Innovator…Collaborator
This is how personal learning networks work. When I first started using Second Life for education, I was helped by a teacher there, Kevin Jarrett, who I started following on the del.icio.us...
Category: Digital Learning
