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Toward A Networked Approach to Improving Education
By Whitney Burke May 24, 2013 - 3:35pm Comments
Which comes first, coordination or collaboration? It’s a classic chicken or egg debate that surfaces among network organizers and one that Peter Wardrip, a Ph.D. student in the Learning Sciences and Policy program at the University of Pittsburgh, has been exploring for the past three years. In today’s interconnected world, there seems to be a network to... more

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The Right to Thrive: Connected Learning at the Digital Edge
By Whitney Burke 03/21/2013 - 6:20pm Comments
A few months ago, I interviewed a former high school teacher and asked him what his hope was for the digital media and learning community in 2013. His answer: to push for a stronger focus on schools. “Students are in schools from 8:00 am to 3:...
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Writing for Interaction
By John Jones 03/18/2013 - 10:00am Comments
We are all quite familiar with interactive writing. Business writing is a nearly constant stream of emails and memos that reply to and reference other texts. Teachers and students engage in a dialectic of writing, response, and revision, using...
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Re-Designing Learning For Democracy
By Cathy Davidson 03/14/2013 - 6:10am Comments
Ann Pendleton-Jullian, the architect and educational redesigner, notes that:  “Design has the capacity to shape contexts as frames for things to happen.”  My excitement at being part of the connected learning movement and the Digital...
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Are We in Danger of Losing Sight of Urban Schools and their Libraries?
By 03/11/2013 - 12:00pm Comments
The rhetoric around libraries today is largely filled with enthusiasm in the digital media and learning world. And it probably should be: YOUmedia, makerspaces, and expanding digital opportunities for young people to learn and to grow are...
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Navigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era
By Whitney Burke 03/08/2013 - 11:35am Comments
Last fall, a New York man rented out his apartment bedroom through Airbnb, a popular website for short-term stays. Unbeknownst to him, he was breaking the law. When he returned to his apartment days later, he was facing more than $40,000 in...
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The Latest in Digital Media, Learning and Museums
By Barry Joseph 03/06/2013 - 7:05pm Comments
The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project published a recent report after surveying the role of the internet and social media within arts organizations that have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts....
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Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?
By danah boyd 03/04/2013 - 7:50am Comments
Sitting with a group of graduating high school seniors last summer, the conversation turned to college roommates.  Although headed off to different schools, they had a similar experience of learning their roommate assignment and...
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Why We Need Badges Now: A Bibliography of Resources in Historical Perspective
By Cathy Davidson 03/01/2013 - 11:45am Comments
It was something over a year ago when we first began talking about badges as a powerful new tool for identifying and validating the rich array of people’s skills, knowledge, accomplishments, and competencies that happens everywhere and at every...
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Public School Classrooms: Incubators for Social Learning
By Whitney Burke 02/28/2013 - 9:40am Comments
What does it mean to be a teacher in the 21st century? It’s a question educators like Antero Garcia have been looking to answer since the digital media and learning initiative launched in 2006. Prior to joining the English department at...
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Is Civics in Crisis? Or Just Changing its Shape?
By Ethan Zuckerman 02/25/2013 - 9:00am Comments
In late January, Austin Oberbillig and Evan Ricks, students at Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington made a video called “Lunch Scholars." The video was meant to be a high school version of “Jaywalking," a sketch Jay Leno has done for...
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DML Conference 2013: Democratic Futures
By S. Craig Watkins 02/20/2013 - 7:00pm Comments
President Barack Obama recently ended his post-State of the Union tour in his adopted hometown of Chicago. Roughly two weeks earlier a group of young Chicago residents started an online petition at Change.org urging the president to visit and...
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Why We Need a Learning Standard for Web Literacy
By Doug Belshaw 02/18/2013 - 9:15am Comments
Mozilla is working to create a new open learning standard for Web Literacy. In this post I want to consider why we need a 'standard' and who might be interested in helping define one. I've written much more about this on my blog and you can...
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Social Networks Support Grieving, Healing in Aftermath of Brazilian Nightclub Tragedy
By Raquel Recuero 02/14/2013 - 6:50pm Comments
On the early morning of Jan. 27, one of the most striking tragedies in Brazil's history took place. A fire started and spread in a popular nightclub in Santa Maria, killing more than 230 people and wounding another 116. The fire began when...
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Connected Learning: Unlocking Potential
By S. Craig Watkins 02/11/2013 - 6:30pm Comments
One of the more interesting assertions of connected learning is the need to create new approaches to education that recognize the vitality of learning and the fact that it happens in many different ways.  There is widespread agreement...
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Augmenting Reality: Addressing Trauma with Digital Media
By Liz Losh 02/08/2013 - 11:20am Comments
Colombian artist Isabel Restrepo has tackled a variety of projects to promote digital literacy, raise awareness to change public health and safety behavior, and foster civic participation in a number of different youth engagement efforts....
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