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Learning with Twitter Chats and Socratic Seminars
In this new DML Central post, educator Buffy Hamilton describes how digital media was used...
Common Sense Education Launches Digital Bytes
What does walking on water, a nine-year-old cardboard magnate, rotoscoping, and communities of kindness all...
A First Peek at Emerging Findings on Maker-Centered Learning
Findings are beginning to emerge from Project Zero's Agency by Design, a multiyear research initiative...
Developer Diary: Game Over Gopher
In this post from GlassLab Game's Developer Diaries Series, Game Over Gopher, a tower defense...
Designing a More Connected World
It has become increasingly clear that youths’ experiences in schools do not match the kinds...
Status Update: Facebook as a Reflection Tool
David Bowles, a museum educator, discusses how he has captured some of the most indelible...
iPads and Arts Education: Rewriting Cultural Narratives with The 524...
In recent years, much has been made of connected learning, and of new media’s power...
Guide to Digital Games and Learning
KQED’s learning and education technology blog MindShift has long been one of our go-to sources...
Connecting to Teach Social Justice and #BlackLivesMatter
As a teacher, Marcia Chatelain—a Georgetown University professor—knew talking about Ferguson in the classroom last...
Certificate Program Helps Educators Grow a “Maker Mindset”
The Maker Certificate Program, based out of Sonoma State University, provides a professional development opportunity...
Tinkering and Thinking with Maker Kylie Peppler
Some enthusiasts of digital media in learning and inclusion of making/tinkering as a learning activity...
Helping Young Writers Find Voice and Audience Digitally
Educators share how learning to write online in multiple formats is a key to literacy...
Make the Web: Start with an Hour of Code
For the second year in a row, Webmaker and Hive Learning Networks, both Educator Innovator partners, will be...
Webinar: Game Design for Literacy Learning
What do game-based learning strategies look like when applied to literacy teaching and learning? We...
Circuit Stickers, Notebook Hacking and Learning as Debugging
I’ve been writing for 45 years, and have always owned more physical notebooks than I...
Community Teens Remix a National Art Museum in DC
You wouldn’t necessarily expect the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden—an arm of the Smithsonian Institution—to...
PBS NewsHour Extra’s #MyZeitgeist Contest Opens for Entries
NewsHour Extra, PBS NewsHour’s educational resource site and an Educator Innovator partner, is challenging students with...
Deconstructing Learning Games: The Oregon Trail
In my last post I introduced a method for deconstructing learning games to estimate their...
Systems-Thinking Digital-Design Book Series Now Available
At the National Writing Project Annual Meeting this week, we’re excited to launch a new...
2014 LRNG Innovation Challenge Winners Announced
Educator Innovator—in partnership with LRNG, the Show Me Campaign, and the John D. and Catherine...
Deconstructing Learning Games: Good vs. Bad
Learning games have it rough. Non-learning games are designed around a single primary goal: player...
Getting Beyond “Clicktivism”
How young people at Oakland’s Youth Radio are using digital media to elevate their political voices. During...
A Day in the Life: 5 Tips for the Daily...
If your students have been creating characters, crafting conflicts, developing dialogue and plotting plots, then...
Why #techquity
“Why is it that when young people use technology on adult terms, they are praised...