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#DMLBadges and Shifting the Overton Window on Learning
On Thursday, the Fourth Annual Digital Media and Learning Competition was announced with much fanfare at a large event in DC that included Arne Duncan, a high up at NASA, and leaders in the industry,...
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What Cognitive Tutors Can (and Can’t) Teach Us About Personalized Learning
Many educators, and especially those interested in educational technology, are currently obsessed with the idea of personalized learning. It’s at the heart of some well hyped initiatives such as the...
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Learning Technology for Youth, Learning Technology By Youth
In synthesizing my recent ideas around a model for technology and learning, I realized that I’d been limiting my conceptions of what role youth should play within a broader learning ecology. I’d placed...
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Avoiding the “Creepy Treehouse” When Using Technology to Connect Learning...
Photo by AlmostJaded, licensed under Creative Commons by-nc-nd In going through a series of readings this week on the topic of games and learning, I found myself looking at the model for technology and...
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Wait, why should classrooms care about participatory culture again?
Because participatory cultures are more authentic! Because they’re more democratic! Because kids love the internetz! No. No. No. In fact, I’m going to go all out and say that classrooms may not have...
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Confessions of an informal learner who’s learning in school
I have a confession to make. I’m learning. In school. No joke. I frame this as a confession because I’m someone who’s generally pretty hard on institutionalized education, and especially schools, and...
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“Reform” vs “Change”: Papert Reflects on the Education System, Technology and...
I just came across this wonderful little excerpt on The Daily Papert that I want to share. In it, constructionist learning theorist Seymour Papert reflects on his reading of the book Tinkering Towards...
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Hacker Literacies Ignite Talk @ DML2012
This past year at the annual Digital Media and Learning conference, I gave an ignite talk (15 slides, 20 seconds each) about hacker literacies, an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while that deals...
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Thoughts on the Purpose of Education
I recently had a great time chatting with Doug Belshaw, a colleague over in the UK, about the purpose of education. Among many other roles (including recently joining the Mozilla Learning team), Doug...
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Maker Faire 2012: Nerdy Derby as Inspirational Pedagogy
This past weekend I had the privilege of going to the World Maker Faire with my fellow colleagues from the Creativity Labs at Indiana University. Our lab is engaged in a number of efforts to envision...
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Understanding Participation in Webmaker: Practices and Identities Spanning...
I’ve been variably involved with Mozilla’s Webmaker project since it started in 2010 (before it was even called that). I had the privilege to go to the first Drumbeat festival in Barcelona, and helped...
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Networked Innovation and Hive NYC: Pop-Ups as Particle Accelerators
This post, an excerpt from a longer piece, summarizes themes and cases from early fieldwork I conducted on the Hive NYC Learning Network. If you’re interested in reading more, you can download the...
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Upgrading Afterschool: Common Sense Shifts in Expanded Learning for a Digital...
This piece, co-authored with Michael Levine of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, appears in a book released today called Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of...
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Is Making Learning? Considerations as education embraces the Maker Movement
Of late, folks in my corner of the educational world have been jazzed about the intersections of maker culture and education. I’m super excited too – and even pleasantly surprised. A couple of years...
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Labor Day note: Studs Terkel on America’s Short Memory
Ok, it’s technically past midnight, but I thought I might post a lovely anecdote (of a larger interview) from the great oral historian of the Great Depression, Studs Terkel, as this Labor Day comes to...
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“You Be Safe Now”: A Brooklyn Biking Vignette
Image Credit: Marc Gautier, (CC BY-NC 2.0) I was biking home from work one evening, coming from Downtown Brooklyn, riding down Fulton street to my place in Clinton Hill. Fulton street doesn’t have a...
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On Equity Issues in the Maker Movement, and Implications for Making and Learning
If you’re interested in the intersection of the maker movement, education and equity, take a half an hour and watch the video Thinking about Making. In it, Leah Buechley, the brilliant mind behind the...
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