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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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A Teenager Taps Social Media to Help Change his Struggling Community
By Raquel Recuero 06/20/2011 - 12:25pm Comments
"Intense shootings happening at this moment in the Complexo do Alemao!" tweeted teenager Rene Silva on Nov. 9, 2010.  Using his personal Twitter account (@Rene_Silva_RJ) and the Twitter account of a newspaper he created, "Voz da Comunidade...
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Redefining School, Success
By monika hardy 06/13/2011 - 11:40am Comments
We’re a district InnovationLab in Loveland, Colorado, where students have crafted, and just completed year one, of a four-year plan of disruption to redefine school. Based on findings that learning at its best is voluntary, per passion/choice,...
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Rethinking the “New” in "New Media"
By Antero Garcia 06/10/2011 - 11:50am Comments
I’m not a label person. Really, I usually don’t care what we call something. However, sometimes the words we call the tools and practices of teachers get in the way of acceptance, adoption, and policy. At the recent Urban Sites Network...
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The Cosmopolitan Classroom
By Ben Williamson 06/07/2011 - 4:40pm Comments
The globalization of digital media has put pressure on education systems worldwide to be reformed. The emphasis is on schooling that will promote the cosmopolitan identities of globalized digital citizens. But what kind of cosmopolitan...
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Share, Grow, Do: The Potential of Digital Age Learning
By Barry Joseph 06/04/2011 - 10:40am Comments
The National Writing Project has launched a fantastic new web site, Digital Is, to build a community amongst educators exploring how the digital age is changing how we write, share, collaborate, publish and participate in the digital age. More...
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Mobile Phones, Digital Media, and America’s Learning Divide
By S. Craig Watkins 05/30/2011 - 10:05am Comments
During a recent research related visit to New York City I decided to take a stroll down 125th Street in Harlem.  Among the assortment of shops and vendors on the famous stretch that is home to the legendary Apollo Theater were an abundance...
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How does Digital Media impact Youth Political and Civic Engagement?
By Howard Rheingold 05/26/2011 - 10:01am Comments
There’s a lot of conversation about young people’s use of digital media and how it impacts their engagement -- or lack of engagement -- in civic affairs and politics, but not a great deal of empirical work has been done. Until now. Joseph Kahne...
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P2PU: Learning for Everyone, by Everyone, about almost Anything
By Jeff Brazil 05/23/2011 - 7:55am Comments
Meet Philipp Schmidt, co-founder and executive director of Peer to Peer University, an emerging, Web-based global learning community. At P2PU, study groups form and gather online to learn a particular topic. They do group work together and...
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Going Interactive in a Big Way: How Can We Transform the Lecture Class?
By Cathy Davidson 05/16/2011 - 4:40am Comments
This is the last in a three-part “end of term” series of blog posts on “Doing Better by Gen Y.”  In the first post, one of my students spoke about the paucity of opportunities to actually think critically about the role of digital media in...
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How to Make a Million Dollars, One Facebook Class at a Time
By John Jones 05/10/2011 - 8:40am Comments
The fall of 2007 was, in many ways, a simpler time: the most popular social network in the United States was an Los Angeles-based outfit called Myspace; Apple had just released an all-in-one touchscreen iPod, phone, and wireless computing...
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Hype, Reality, Insights on Cyberbullying, Videogaming, and Learning Institutions
By Barry Joseph 05/05/2011 - 1:05pm Comments
At the top of the not-to-be-missed list is "Good and Bad Cyberbullying PSAs: How to Tell the Difference," an exceptional blog post by childhood expert Rosalind Wiseman, who insightfully frames the cyberbullying issue. As more and more...
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Should We Design Social Justice into Learning?
By Lyndsay Grant 05/02/2011 - 11:20am Comments
The notion of design is central to the way we think about learning, and to how we think about digital media. Some would argue that learning is "designed in" to digital media such as good video games. But what can this concept tell us about “...
Should We Design Social Justice into Learning?
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Pop-Up University
By Howard Rheingold 04/28/2011 - 4:00pm Comments
If Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, originally germinated out of fun and impulse, the next stage was more scary-serious. As soon as I took people's...
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What Should Civic Learning Look Like in an Age of Social and Technological Change?
By S. Craig Watkins 04/25/2011 - 4:10pm Comments
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and her iCivics team recently convened a thought provoking conference, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age. In partnership with the Aspen Institute, Georgetown Law, and the MacArthur...
What Should Civic Learning Look Like in an Age of Technological Change?
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What Are Digital Literacies? Let’s Ask the Students
By Cathy Davidson 04/21/2011 - 1:35pm Comments
Two weeks ago I blogged on DML Central on “Doing Better by Generation Y” and the tendency for pundits to criticize Gen Y’s absorption with new media, critique how little they know, blame their lack of attention, and castigate their inability to...
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