Here’s an audio recording of a recent piece broadcasted on KQED in San Francisco. Guests include Amanda Lenhart of Pew Research Center, Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media, and Madeline Levine, a psychologist based in Marin County, CA. During this conversation, the participants discuss current research, trends, and implications for parenting in the 21st century.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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April 3, 2013Common Sense Media issued today a new tool for helping school districts that are implement mobile learning programs where students have their own devices. When planning for 1:1 implementations, school leaders need to address how digital citizenship will be cultivated in their school communities. This resource leads us through three phases for implementation: Envision, Communicate, and Implement and provides with many valuable planning documents including checklists, educational posters, family media…
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March 25, 2013Hanna Rosin of the Atlantic has published a fascinating piece detailing parental concerns and research around young children using technology. Entitled The Touch-Screen Generation, this article summarizes expert findings around the affects of television on children. Rosin also notes that this existing research may inform current practices around early childhood use of technology as there is little existing research on kids’ use of technologies such as iPads. Intertwined in this…
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February 7, 2013In honor of Digital Learning Day (February 6, 2013), PBS LearningMedia released a survey indicating that teachers correlate educational benefits to technology use in classrooms. Nearly 75% of all teachers surveyed indicated that “technology enables them to reinforce and expand on content, to motivate students to learn, and to respond to a variety of learning styles.” According to this survey, teachers are indicating that they have even more access to…
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February 7, 2013The creative agency Dentsu has created an augmented reality app for a Japanese newspaper that allows readers’ children to interact with content at their level. When articles are scanned with this app, kid appropriate language appears along with animations and other multimedia designed to appeal to children. This is an interesting way to bring newspaper reading into homes and engage families around their mobile devices. Can you think of other…
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January 29, 2013Listen (or read) this piece from NPR’s Tell Me More series entitled “Social Me”. Harvard Berkman Center associate Rey Junco discusses his research on “disinhibition”, a term describing how people may be more likely to say or do certain things because they are online. Junco goes on to say that disinhibition is not necessarily a negative thing, and it often allows positive classroom learning relationships to be established that are…
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December 4, 2012Emerging Technologies for the Classroom, edited by Chrystalla Mouza and Nancy Lavigne, provides contemporary examples of the ways in which educators can use digital technologies to create effective learning environments that support improved learning and instruction. These examples are guided by multiple conceptual and methodological traditions evolving from the learning sciences and instructional technology communities, as well as other communities doing important work on learning technologies. In particular, the book provides…
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November 27, 2012The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. Virtual Literacies is a timely and much-needed collection of current research in the area. It provides a synthesis of knowledge and understanding, making it a key resource for scholars, students, and teachers–particularly those interested in digital literacies. The work presents a coherent vision of current knowledge, as…
