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Four 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, EquityYoung 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‘Connected Learning’ in Edge Communities
For more than nine weeks now I have been working with a high school in the Central Texas area, getting to know students, teachers, and administrators. Along with a fantastic team of...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityNo Child Left Behind: The Economic Motive of National Education Policy
I’ve often thought about how our national educational policy of No Child Left Behind, passed in 2002, reinforces and connects to the increasing income disparity in the United States. Some of the...
Category: EquityRole-Playing Racial History through Digital Games
Teaching historical empathy through gaming is an important area in digital media and learning, but collaborations between university professors and game designers aren’t always easy. Nonetheless, UC San Diego Theater and Dance...
Categories: Edtech, EquityHow Age Restrictions Complicate Digital Media & Learning
Digital media and learning scholars have long understood the importance of access when it comes to digital technologies. Whether we’re talking about the digital divide or the participation gap, we all recognize...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityIn Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityThe Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric
We all know that teen bullying - both online and offline - has devastating consequences. Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide is a tragedy. He was tormented for being gay. He knew he was being...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquitySeeing the Classroom as a Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change
Antero Garcia, who teaches English at a high school in South Central Los Angeles, is a PhD candidate, focusing on critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and...
Category: EquityConectar Igualdad: Argentina’s Bold Move to Build an Equitable Digital Future
I recently had a chance to participate in a wonderful conference in Buenos Aires. El Congreso Internacional de Inclusión Digital Educativa (The International Conference on Digital Inclusion Education) was an event that...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityA Teenager Taps Social Media to Help Change his Struggling Community
"Intense shootings happening at this moment in the Complexo do Alemao!" tweeted teenager Rene Silva on Nov. 9, 2010. Using his personal Twitter account (@Rene_Silva_RJ) and the Twitter account of a newspaper...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, EquityMobile Phones, Digital Media, and America’s Learning Divide
During a recent research related visit to New York City I decided to take a stroll down 125th Street in Harlem. Among the assortment of shops and vendors on the famous stretch...
Category: EquityShould We Design Social Justice into Learning?
The notion of design is central to the way we think about learning, and to how we think about digital media. Some would argue that learning is "designed in" to digital media...
Category: EquityOne of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart. The more complicated the story, the harder it is to tell, but I feel a...
Category: Equity
