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Identity, Avatars, Virtual Life - and Advancing Social Equity in the ‘Real’ World

By Liz Losh 03/01/2011 - 4:35pm Comments

This semester, MIT professor Fox Harrell is teaching an ambitious new course on “Identity Representation” that includes studying identities adopted in computer games and social network sites. In the course description posted online,...

Understanding the Rise of Social Networking in Brazil

By Raquel Recuero 02/24/2011 - 1:35pm Comments

Orkut was the first major social networking service to arrive in Brazil and it has just passed the seven-year mark. Although several other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are growing in popularity, Orkut maintains a strong...

D.I.Y.U.: An Experiment

By Howard Rheingold 02/21/2011 - 11:05am Comments

Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, grew out of a desire to follow the fun and act on impulse. When I impulsively tweeted a couple of weeks ago...

Young Black Males, Learning, and Video Games

By Liz Losh 02/17/2011 - 8:25am Comments

A recent report on educational achievement among young black males describes a “national catastrophe” in primary, secondary, and higher education that is reinforced by policy failures and funding shortfalls. “A Call for Change: The Social and...

On Parenting, Media, Education and Phobias

By Ben Williamson 02/14/2011 - 10:15am Comments

Modern cinema can teach us how youth and media are widely understood in our cultures. Cinema, like works of literature and visual art, can represent and diagnose our widespread fears and fantasies about young people and about how we, as...

Wikipedia: Information Source and Knowledge Community

By John Jones 02/10/2011 - 1:00pm Comments

One of the challenges facing the digital media and learning community—in fact, all educators—is the rapid pace of technological development that makes necessary the constant evaluation and investigation of new information and communication...

Wikirriculum: Curriculum in the Digital Age

By Ben Williamson 02/07/2011 - 9:20am Comments

Developing a school curriculum is a complex act of creative design. Add networked participatory media to the mix and curriculum design gets even more complicated. So, from the perspective of digital media and learning research, what kind of...

Digital Divides, Blog Bans, Games That Cause Change

By Barry Joseph 02/03/2011 - 8:15am Comments

Global Kids points us to important new resources in the digital media and learning field each month. "It's how you play the game" (article): Followers of games and education are familiar with the opening last year in New York City of Quest to...

Why Teach?

By Cathy Davidson 01/31/2011 - 8:55am Comments

There are as many reasons to teach as there are reasons to learn. One reason item-response testing (the twentieth-century’s dominant method of testing) is so deficient is that it tends to reduce what we teach to content (especially in the...

Connected They Write: The Lure of Writing on the Web

By Raquel Recuero 01/24/2011 - 6:35am Comments

The massive adoption of digital media in the everyday life of teens has reshaped social and educational practices in Latin America. A digital divide persists but youth are increasingly more connected. In Chile, for example, more than 96 percent...

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