The tyranny of correct answers masks a vital and essential element of learning — the practice of debugging. When you make something, however, especially something that involves code and/or electronic or mechanical...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational Practice, Reimagining LearningReimagining Learning
Learner Agency: Sharing Control of the Classroom Agenda
When I reflect on the 10 years I spent teaching at UC Berkeley and Stanford, and look back over the 127 interviews I did with innovators in digital media and learning, “learner...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational Practice, Featured, Reimagining LearningConnecting 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 Learning5 Secrets to Creating an Innovative After-school Program
A little over a year ago, Mahad Ibrahim reached out to me about Connected Camps, an organization I’m leading with Katie Salen that offers online learning programs and mentorship in Minecraft. Mahad...
Categories: Connected Learning, Equity, Reimagining LearningWatchworthy Wednesday: Remake Learning Network Turns 10, Reaches Forward
The Remake Learning network started as an experiment in collaboration among educators, researchers, mentors and caring adults and has become a movement touching thousands of lives in southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio. As...
Category: Reimagining LearningIt’s the Relationships, Stupid: Connected Camps Mid-Summer Report
Two years ago, Connected Camps and Institute of Play launched Minecraft Summer of Learning, piloting a new model for in-game virtual summer camps. We’ve served over two thousand families since then, and...
Categories: Connected Learning, Reimagining Learning
