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Digital Underlife and the Writing Classroom
By John Jones May 14, 2012 - 7:05am Comments
Digital Underlife and the Writing Classroom Blog Image In a 1987 paper, Robert Brooke argued that instructors needed to pay attention to the ways that students didn't pay attention, like passing notes in class or whispering conversations. Building on the work of Erving Goffman, Brooke argued that these behaviors represented a writing "underlife" that was a means for students "to show that their identities are... more

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Why Critical Design Literacy is Needed Now More Than Ever
By S. Craig Watkins 05/01/2012 - 12:40pm Comments
One thing is clear in our work at Texas City High School (TCHS) this year: students like to create their own media.  Students at TCHS create their own YouTube channels, compose original music, comics, games, Tumblr pages, art work, and...
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Reality, the Game: Interview with Interactive Expert Jeff Watson
By Howard Rheingold 04/27/2012 - 1:05pm Comments
When I read Henry Jenkins’ description of the Pokemon-like card game he played with entering students at USC’s interdisciplinary Cinema School, I realized that the project Tracy Fullerton had described in September, 2011, had come to pass. Don’...
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Techno-euphoria
By Nishant Shah 04/24/2012 - 7:25am Comments
When it comes to youth, technology and literacy, the warring lines seem to have been drawn and the voices on both the sides are strident, if not loud. There are those who insist that with the digital native in the classroom, we have to...
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Teaching Teachers, Honoring Learners: Interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
By Howard Rheingold 04/20/2012 - 7:35am Comments
As digital media and networks make possible more networked and collaborative pedagogies, who teaches the teachers how to take advantage of the opportunities (and avoid the pitfalls) that new technologies afford? I have recounted previously on...
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
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From Conversation to Collection
By John Jones 04/16/2012 - 7:30am Comments
Recently I had the opportunity to attend a symposium on the digital humanities hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Media research group. The occasion was the publication of "Debates in the Digital Humanities," a collection...
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Methods for Shaping Society
By Ben Williamson 04/12/2012 - 6:30am Comments
What 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 more digital methods are being...
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A Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12
By Cathy Davidson 04/09/2012 - 11:50am Comments
Below you will find a collaboratively written document produced in Bangkok, Thailand, at the March 28-31 teacher’s meeting of EARCOS, the East Asia Regional Council of Schools.  EARCOS is an organization of 130 primary and secondary...
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Very Worthy Reads
By Barry Joseph 04/05/2012 - 3:10pm Comments
In a new report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, "Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality," the authors set out to “map and explore what we know about the ways in which young...
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The Ethics and Responsibilities of the 21st Century Classroom: Part One
By Cathy Davidson 04/02/2012 - 9:25am Comments
When I think about the “ethics and responsibilities of the 21st century classroom,” I think not only about our ethical responsibilities toward students but about our ethical responsibilities toward teachers.  I am very concerned that the...
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Gaining Some Perspective on Badges for Lifelong Learning
By Doug Belshaw 03/30/2012 - 8:30am Comments
I first read about the idea of Open Badges back in the middle of last year. It excited me. One thing I’ve always been interested in is how to shift the power dynamic within classrooms towards learners in a positive way. Changing (or at least...
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Webinar: How Can We Disrupt the “Banking” System of Education?
By Jon Barilone 03/29/2012 - 9:00am Comments
Earlier today, connectedlearning.tv hosted a live webinar with librarian Buffy Hamilton, aka “The Unquiet Librarian,” on the topic: How do libraries cultivate participatory literacy to disrupt what Paulo Freire calls the "banking" system of...
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The Role of Tech vs The Purpose of Education
By Lyndsay Grant 03/26/2012 - 4:25pm Comments
Working in the field of digital media and learning, where the important role of new technologies in learning seems self-evident, the slow pace of change in mainstream education can feel frustrating. Responding to this challenge, we give a lot...
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What Tech Wants: A People Agenda
By monika hardy 03/22/2012 - 6:25pm Comments
I loved Kevin Kelly’s book, and especially loved the message I heard from it. What I heard was that tech wants us to become more humane, not less. What I heard, was that tech wants us to get to know ourselves, each other, and the world around...
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What's Next for DML?
By Antero Garcia 03/20/2012 - 10:00am Comments
I recently returned from the engaging and rewarding DML2012 both exhausted and invigorated. As I debrief the many ideas and challenges to existing learning practices that were shared and explored at this year's DML conference, I am struck by...
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Reflecting on Dharun Ravi's Conviction
By danah boyd 03/19/2012 - 10:10am Comments
On Friday, Dharun Ravi -- the Rutgers student whose roommate Tyler Clementi killed himself in a case narrated through the lens of cyberbullying -- was found guilty of privacy invasion, tampering with evidence, and bias intimidation (a hate...
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