A busy semester with updates in abundance soon. For now a few quick, DML-related notes: If you are going to be at the DML conference this week or the Make2Learn symposium tomorrow, send me a tweet and say hello. (I’m also one of the judges for the M2L youth competition – looking forward to the [...]
Happy new year! As I finish up non-blogging activities before the semester starts up, here is a featured Q&A with me at DML. Enjoy!
During the NCTE convention last month I gave a five-minute ignite talk. It was fun and stress inducing and of a different style than the other presentations and meetings I participated in while at the Las Vegas conference. Apparently, the talk was supposed to be recorded but it wasn’t. I was asked to repeat the [...]
Just because we can have an entire class via Twitter doesn’t mean we should. Scrolling through my morning news the other day, I cam across this Chronicle blogpost: “In Classroom Experiment, All Discussion Happened via Twitter.” Based on the article, the experiment took place for one class. It’s not clear if the class will sustain [...]
I have an article in the most recent issue of The Educational Forum. Like this post, it is titled “Trust and Mobile Media Use in Schools.” The article is a part of a special issue focused on New Literacies. The article can be found here. Abstract: This article shares findings from a year-long study about [...]
On Tuesday, October 16 I’ll be speaking at Scripps College as a part of their Social Media/Social Change series. Hopefully this will be less a lecture and more a dialogue. The talk is titled “Control, Resistance and Play: a Discussion of Mobile Media, Pedagogy and Civic Engagement in Public Schools” and will extending work conducted [...]
I want to share two recent publications that came out that I wrote focused on participatory learning in schools. Both focused on the alternate reality game I created as part of my dissertation research, Ask Anansi, these two publications look at the challenges and constraints of sustaining participatory learning within today’s public schools. First, in [...]
On Saturday, I spent the day in DC learning how to be a better blogger. It was an intense day of brainstorming and I want to talk about the two things that are troubling me: The skills I developed probably need to be funneled down to our students ASAP. The rather homogeneous assortment of [...]
While in Los Angeles, I spent a lot of time sitting in traffic. Directly related to this, I spent a lot of time sitting in traffic listening to audiobooks. At one point, I got frustrated with the insanely slooooow pace at which most book are narrated that I started listening to audiobooks at double speed. [...]
The Following is Cross-Posted at the 21st Century Scholar blog: A month to reflect on the Digital Media and Learning (DML) Conference, and my mind is still buzzing with the ideas and innovative shifts in educational learning I was able to engage with during the three-day conference. As with the two prior conferences, I left the conference [...]