A few weeks ago, just before the 2010 THATCAMP, a well-known technology and humanities “unconference,” got underway at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the center’s director,...
Category: Digital LearningDigital Learning
A professor with unconventional methods, message
Digital media and learning initiatives often talk in utopian terms about a “future without books,” but don’t say that to New School faculty member Trebor Scholz. Scholz, who teaches in the Department...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeIt’s an amazing time to be a learner – Will Richardson
Your personal learning network is not just a network of people you learn from. A "pln," as enthusiasts call them, is a network of people who are learning together. I was given...
Category: Digital LearningWikimedia and the Future of Public Media
As of this week, I am officially part of Wikimedia's advisory board. I'm super excited to be part of the Wikimedia team and community, and am feeling rosy about the promise of...
Category: Digital LearningLibrarian 2.0: Buffy J. Hamilton
Which of the following two assignments is more likely to engage high school students and inspire them to learn something? 1. Write a paper about contemporary US war veterans. 2. Create a...
Category: Digital LearningRecommended Resources from Global Kids
Editor's note: Global Kids each month points us to their current favorite resources. Please take a moment and share some of yours, too, in the comments section. Also, we always value knowing...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningSpin: The Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010
Hidden in the tweetstream from the Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 are hundreds of provocative insights, comments, and observations, and we couldn't help but mine the archive for another round. The...
Category: Digital LearningDispatches: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010
In the wake of the Digital Media and Learning Conference, we’re seeing many great conversations taking place and intriguing questions being asked. Here’s a second wave of tweets harvested from the conference...
Category: Digital LearningRemix: Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010
More than 400 researchers, scholars, educators, practitioners, and youth experts from the emerging digital media and learning field have just returned from our first Digital Media and Learning Conference. We’re still trying...
Category: Digital LearningNow that the ebook industry has set its sights on the textbook and educational markets, it's especially important for educators to shape discussion of the benefits and potential impact of ereaders. Rather...
Category: Digital LearningGlobal Kids: Recommended Reading…Viewing…Listening
Global Kids' New York City-based programs address the urgent need for young people to possess leadership skills and an understanding of complex global issues to succeed in the 21st century workplace and...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningDigital 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 LearningMeet 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$2 Million Competition Seeks Ideas to Transform Learning
Today, in conjunction with an announcement by President Obama calling for new efforts to reimagine and improve education in science and math, we are announcing a $2 million open competition supported by...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeEsther Wojcicki’s H.S. Journalism Learning Community
I learned about Esther Wojcicki's high school journalism program and learning community from my personal learning network - the people I sought out on Twitter because they seemed to know something about...
Category: Digital Learning
