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Badges For Learning Series, Part 2: Getting The Full Picture
In my previous post, “My Beef With Badges,” I called on the emerging badging community to stop conflating our aspirations with our achievements, and to start sharing a more accurate picture of...
Categories: Edtech, ResearchReading Comprehension: Paper or Screen?
In a recent post, I critiqued the claims in Ferris Jabr's Scientific American article, "Why the Brain Prefers Paper" that addressed the differences in comprehension between reading from paper and reading from...
Category: ResearchHow Might Creative Youth Cultures Understand the Nature of ‘Creativity’?
In this post I want to compare two European research projects that investigated creative production by young people in informal, out-of-school and, to a great extent, self organised contexts. Around the world...
Category: ResearchHow Does Electronic Reading Affect Comprehension?
Although electronic texts have been with us for many decades, in the past few years electronic reading has become increasingly popular. The ready availability of mobile, connected devices like smartphones and tablets,...
Category: ResearchWhat do research methods do? Research methods are routinely understood as objective techniques for getting to know the world. Yet they may be more influential and socially significant than this, particularly as...
Category: ResearchInternet Research & Ethics: The Case of the London Riots Analysis
In the summer of 2011, London erupted in flames. Now, it's not the first time the city has burned; it's had a rich history of conflagration within its walls and revolt in...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, ResearchIs the Virtual World Good for the ‘Real’ One?
In a cartoon depicting the evolution of Good Samaritanism in the digital age, a man walks by a homeless person lying on the street and does nothing. In the next frame, he...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, ResearchBio-Politics, Video Games, and Kids’ Bodies
Some recent research findings have got me thinking a lot about Franz Kafka’s story about a young clerical worker who wakes up half-transformed into a giant insect. No, it’s not research from...
Category: ResearchRethinking the Human Subjects Process
Get a group of social scientists together to talk about prospective research and it won't take long before the conversation turns to the question of human subjects board approval. Most researchers have...
Category: ResearchThe DML Field: Listening to Critical Voices
Often the emphasis in Digital Media and Learning is on K-12 education, and so social computing practices in higher education frequently receive less attention from researchers. A recently released five-year Mellon Foundation...
Category: ResearchInformation & Convergence: Twitter’s Practices in Brazil
Recent data from Hubspot showed that Twitter’s growth in Brazil is slowing down, but it is definitely in the mainstream population. Its role and its profile have grown, and more and more...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, ResearchSocial 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, ResearchDigital Media and Democracy: Early Returns
The relationship between digital media and democracy is complicated, because it is difficult for researchers to draw causal connections between adopting new social computing technologies and promoting what Joseph Kahne, Mills College...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Research
