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6/11/13
Q&A: danah boyd on What We Know and Don’t Know About Teens and Social Networks
Social media scholar danah boyd has been called the “High Priestess of the Internet” by the Financial Times. One of the first to study how youth are using social media and the tensions between public and private, boyd is now a senior researcher at Microsoft Research New England. This post is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders on digital media and learning, then and now.6/04/13
Q&A: Jim Gee on The Right Role of Digital Games in the Classroom
Jim Gee is the author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.This post is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders on digital media and learning, then and now.5/28/13
Q&A: Cathy Davidson on Institution Building to Prepare Students for the Information Age
As co-founder of HASTAC, author and scholar Cathy Davidson, has been at the forefront of thinking about new forms of learning in the digital age. This post is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders on digital media and learning, then and now.5/21/13
Q&A: Mimi Ito on Connected Learning for All
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies technology use and young people’s changing relationships to media and communications. This post is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders on digital media and learning, then and now.5/14/13
Q&A: Howard Rheingold on Using Technology to Take Learning into Our Own Hands
Critic and educator Howard Rheingold is author of Virtual Reality, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs, and Net Smart. As he puts it he’s been “on the Web since the beginning, and long before.” This is the first in a series of conversations with thought leaders on digital media and learning, then and now.9/17/12
Are Class Differences in Parenting Creating a New Digital Divide?
Research shows social class has a big effect on parenting style. Does it influence how kids use digital media too? Heather Chaplin examines what the digital divide means in 2012.8/09/12
In Pittsburgh, A Modern-Day Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
How gamers, roboticists, technologists, and designers are working alongside educators in Pittsburgh to inspire new kinds of learning in and outside of school. We visit innovators at the city’s regional learning network that focuses on kids and creativity7/11/12
YOUmedia Expansions Offer Teens Student-Centered Learning Opportunities with Digital Media
At YOUmedia at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, kids explore, express and create using digital media, and then hook what they learn there back into the classroom. The idea is spreading. As Heather Chaplin reports, YOUmedia spaces are popping up at community centers, museums and libraries around the country.5/10/12
How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom
In our final post in a series on mobile learning, MindShift’s Tina Barseghian visits classrooms in San Francisco to find out what it looks like when mobile devices enter the classroom—when it works, whether it’s worthwhile, and how some educators are leveraging the technology to teach students what it means to be learners and citizens in a digital world.4/20/12
The Magic of Going Mobile: Augmented Reality, Design Thinking and the Power of Place
How a new augmented reality platform for the iPhone is helping educators explore the possibilities of mobile for learning, and the value of putting students in the driver’s seat.4/06/12
Welcoming Mobile: More Districts Are Rewriting Acceptable Use Policies, Embracing Smartphones and Social Media in Schools
No longer afraid of giving kids access to the internet and using mobile technologies for learning, a growing number of school districts across the country are developing digital media policies that emphasize responsibility over fear.3/30/12
Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?
Are traditional teaching practices changing to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices have to offer? What lasting effect will these technologies have on the “formal” learning equation? We take a closer look at the promise and practice of mobile learning in the classroom today.3/28/12
Technology in Early Childhood: Advice For Parents and Teachers From A Trusted Source
The National Association for The Education of Young Children and The Fred Rogers Center released long-awaited advice on technology use in early childhood programs. Here’s what they have to say, and what it means for parents and educators.3/01/12
Q&A: John Seely Brown on Interest-Driven Learning, Mentors and the Importance of Play
As the leading thinkers and do-ers meet this week at the third annual Digital Media and Learning conference, Spotlight talked with DML2012’s keynote presenter John Seely Brown, self-proclaimed “chief of confusion,” and one of the most enlightening thinkers on nearly any topic.1/31/12
