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Connecting Making, Designing and Composing
In her closing keynote at FabLearn a couple years ago, Leah Buechley turned a critical eye on the maker movement. If you don’t know Buechley’s work, she is arguably one of the...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Educational Practice, Literacies, Reimagining LearningWatchworthy Wednesday: The Importance of Media Literacy in Partisan Times
“It’s crucial that we cultivate students’ ability to judge the credibility of online political content and build their commitment to carefully assessing such content.” — Joseph Kahne and Benjamin Bowyer Taken from...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, LiteraciesWatchworthy Wednesday: Podcast Examines Human Rights Data Analysis
“Data is always lying to you… but, we can fix it, sometimes, maybe.” That’s how Patrick Ball, director of research for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, opens his podcast, “Understanding Patterns...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Edtech, Equity, Literacies‘Compojing’: Writing with Emoji for Fun and Profit
Over the past year and a half, I have been working closely with a group of researchers and teachers in Northern Colorado on a co-designed curriculum project called Compose Our World. While...
Categories: Edtech, LiteraciesWatchworthy Wednesday: Empowering Youth Through Writing, Digital Media
Four 16-year-old Muslim-American girls are getting their stories heard through slam poetry. Thousands of other young people are sharing their hopes, fears, aspirations and observations, too, as part of the Young Writers...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, LiteraciesClosing Digital Gap: Libraries Offer Youth STEM Programs
It seems today that STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and coding are constantly in the news, especially in relation to youth and learning. But, despite near incessant news coverage, there is...
Categories: Equity, Literacies, Reimagining Learning
