A Triptych on Changing Language, Changing Minds
Reading the Comments “Go home you stupid illegal.” I heard it a lot in 2014. As part of a larger effort protesting the racist name of a local eatery, I was struck...
Category: Digital CitizenshipMonth: December 2015
Launa Hall’s recent essay in the Washington Post describes her misgivings and concerns about her third-grade students using ipads in the classroom. Hall describes a handful of arresting moments when her students’...
Category: EdtechThe Learning Village of Our Hybrid Reality
If you are reading this, you have a hybrid life. There are things that you encounter and find meaning in or meaningful both offline and digitally. The device you are reading this...
Category: EdtechWhat the Connected Learning Research Community Can Learn from YPAR
Last month, the two of us (along with our mentor, Dr. Ernest Morrell) celebrated the release of our book, Doing Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Inquiry with Researchers, Educators, and Youth. The...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquitySelfie Pedagogy IV: Diversity, Netprov and Service Learning
We profiled Mark Marino of the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab at USC on this blog five years ago in a post about innovative approaches to service learning. In 2015, we wanted to...
Category: Reimagining LearningSeeking Meaning Through Connected Learning
As we close out 2015, I would like to engage the notion of “connection” for a moment. What does this word mean to all of us in the Connected Learning community? Exactly...
Category: Connected Learning
