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Revolutionary New Technology + Old Teaching Methods = ?
In a recent post on her blog, Duke's Cathy Davidson responds to a New York Times article on the increasing popularity of iPads in schools, arguing that iPads, or any technology, aren't...
Category: EdtechYoung Black Males, Learning, and Video Games
A recent report on educational achievement among young black males describes a “national catastrophe” in primary, secondary, and higher education that is reinforced by policy failures and funding shortfalls. “A Call for...
Categories: Edtech, EquityDigital Divides, Blog Bans, Games That Cause Change
Global Kids points us to important new resources in the digital media and learning field each month. "It's how you play the game" (article): Followers of games and education are familiar with...
Categories: Edtech, EquityLearning, Playing, Designing: Video Games in School
Most education has been fashioned around the reasonable-sounding objective of equipping students with tools to solve problems. This is one facet of what some educators call the "eat your broccoli" approach to...
Category: EdtechRecommended Reading, Viewing, Clicking (Part 3)
Editor's note: Global Kids does a stellar job each month pointing us to key resources. We are not Waiting for Superman, We are Empowering Superheroes (Presentation) Social entrepreneur and learning researcher Diana...
Categories: Edtech, EquityProbing What’s Next in Learning and Technology, Pt 2
Children in Nigeria use laptops from the One Laptop Per Child movement. In the second part of my interview with Keene Haywood, Director of Research at the New Media Consortium, publisher of...
Category: EdtechSearching for What’s Next in Learning and Digital Media
A young girl in rural South America uses a laptop from the One Laptop Per Child movement. The New Media Consortium (NMC) is publisher of the annual Horizon Report, which "seeks to...
Category: Edtech10 Innovative Digital Media & Learning Projects Win $1.7M
The results of the MacArthur Foundation's 2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition are in, and the 10 winning projects can’t help but to inspire anyone even remotely interested in understanding the potential...
Category: EdtechGame Changers Kids Competition 2010
Announcing the Digital Media and Learning Game Changers Kids Competition! Please share the news and the link to the competition web site, with any kids or colleagues who work with young people...
Category: EdtechFacebook’s Games: Emerging Sociality
Raquel Recuero is a professor of linguistics and communication in Brazil, and a researcher in social media and Internet culture in South America. The content of this post is based on her...
Category: EdtechTake a few minutes and help influence the next generation of games. The 2010 game design competition sponsored by HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning program is looking for...
Category: EdtechSocial 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, ResearchOn 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, EdtechWhen Is an Art Museum a Workshop? A Field Report from Korea
Earlier this month, I participated in the Digital Natives Workshop hosted by KAIST, the MIT of Korea, and attended by researchers from the U.S. and across the Pacific Rim. My talk on...
Category: EdtechGetting into College? There’s a Game for That.
While One Laptop per Child and other programs to address the digital divide are important, I have come to believe it is counterproductive to couple discussions of the transformative potential of digital...
Categories: Edtech, Equity
