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How to Make a Million Dollars, One Facebook Class at a Time
The fall of 2007 was, in many ways, a simpler time: the most popular social network in the United States was an Los Angeles-based outfit called Myspace; Apple had just released an...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningIf Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, originally germinated out of fun and impulse, the next stage was more scary-serious. As soon as I...
Category: Digital LearningRobots are always in the news, it seems. Whether they are serving as caregivers for the elderly or helping solve the Japanese nuclear crisis, robots are becoming an increasingly important part of...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningDesigning Learning From “End to End”
When Tim Berners-Lee and a handful of colleagues began developing the World Wide Web, they did so without a blueprint but with something better: a principle. What if all the world’s knowledge...
Category: Digital LearningRheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, grew out of a desire to follow the fun and act on impulse. When I impulsively tweeted a...
Category: Digital LearningWikipedia: Information Source and Knowledge Community
One of the challenges facing the digital media and learning community—in fact, all educators—is the rapid pace of technological development that makes necessary the constant evaluation and investigation of new information and...
Category: Digital LearningWikirriculum: Curriculum in the Digital Age
Developing a school curriculum is a complex act of creative design. Add networked participatory media to the mix and curriculum design gets even more complicated. So, from the perspective of digital media...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeConnected They Write: The Lure of Writing on the Web
The massive adoption of digital media in the everyday life of teens has reshaped social and educational practices in Latin America. A digital divide persists but youth are increasingly more connected. In...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityDisrupting Class: A New Age for Learning
Book review: one in an occasional series on works that aspire to reimagine learning in the information age.Let’s start with the shocking news that Disrupting Class authors Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeTop 5 Blog Posts on Digital Media and Learning for 2010
The DML Central blog is just over a year old, and the close of 2010 marks our first full year of publishing thought leadership from our featured bloggers and highlighting best practices...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningCommunity and Writing in an Age of New Collectives
In Larry Sanger's history of the development of Wikipedia in Open Sources 2.0, the Wikipedia co-founder writes: For months I denied that Wikipedia was a community, claiming that it was, instead, only...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningShelly Terrell: Global Netweaver, Curator, PLN Builder
When I started using social media in the classroom, I looked for and began to learn from more experienced educators. First, I read and then tried to comment usefully on their blog...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningBecoming a Master in Knowledge and Networks
Last December, deans from the Graduate School and the College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University came to me and asked if I and the team at the Humanities, Arts, Sciences,...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeParticipation, Technology, and the Power of Sharing
This year’s convention of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) attracted more than 20,000 programmers, artists, researchers, filmmakers, and gaming professionals - as well...
Category: Digital LearningCall for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2011
Professor Katie Salen is Chair of the Digital Media & Learning Conference 2011. Her work at the innovative Quest to Learn school in New York City has been featured most recently in...
Categories: Digital Learning, Equity
