Listen (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…
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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March 7, 2012Educator and ed-tech expert Shelly Terrell shares free engaging apps for creating digital stories, reading stories, and interacting with stories. The apps meet the needs of diverse learners, supporting multiple learning styles because they are visual, have sound, and include animation. Terrell shares her list via a playlist created by another free tool, Mentor Mob. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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January 26, 2012In part one of this conversation, Confessions of an Aca-Fan showcases two innovative projects seeking to explore the intersections between transmedia storytelling, participatory culture, and education. In part one of a series, Henry Jenkins talks with Jen Begeal, Robot Heart Stories, and Laura Fleming, Inanimate Alice.
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January 7, 2012
Writing for Edudemic, innovative educator Terry Heick discusses the transmedia phenomenon Inanimate Alice, which merges digital and traditional storytelling to create an interactive experience that enhances the narrative. He also summarizes the importance of transmedia in education, highlighting its ability to provide ”new storytelling mechanisms, decreased audience passivity, and opportunities to develop critical digital fluency.”
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November 17, 2011This Creative Voice interview features educator and library media specialist Laura Fleming, who discusses her use of transmedia storytelling to weave curricula together across subjects, engaging her students in meaningful ways beyond those obtainable via mere textbooks. In this thoughtful piece, Fleming discusses both Inanimate Alice and Robot Heart Stories, not to mention GETideas.org!
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November 11, 2011With the advent of multimedia tools available to everyone, today’s educator is no longer dependant on the titles developed by commercial educational software developers. They now have the means to create their own learning environments. This text by Joseph Frantiska is designed to provide educators with a structured, accessible methodology, as well as the knowledge necessary to produce high-quality environments which can be tailor-made for their specific subject matter or area….
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September 29, 2011Stories today are told through many formats, and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this new book by Margaret Mackey, 12 young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension. “A remarkable piece of scholarship that combines stringent empirical research with…
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September 28, 2011This video features Professors Brad King and Jennifer George-Palilonis, who are writing an interactive textbook to teach students how to conceptualize, develop, and produce a transmedia story.
