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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...
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...
WBEZ’s Tech Shift on Teens, Social Media and Learning
Teens are continually finding new social media platforms. But no matter the network, there are...
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves, the latest Educator Innovator partner, believes that the lifeblood of democracy is the...
Embracing Possibility: Lessons from Mozfest 2014
Two weekends ago, I had the opportunity to help co-“wrangle” a floor for the 2014...
Digital Promise 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Award Winners Announced
Digital Promise believes that in order for innovation to spread in education, we first have...
Learning by Making: Agency by Design and the Rise of...
This post originally appeared at Usable Knowledge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The...
Risk-Taking for Everyone: Our First School-Wide Cardboard Challenge
This past Friday afternoon might just have been one of my favorite moments ever in...
NaNoWriMo: An #EduAwesome Project for Your #BestYearEver
This post originally appeared at Edutopia. The first time I introduced National Novel Writing Month...
Middle School Inventors Lab
This post originally appeared on the Startup Classroom blog. This is a big year for...
Lights on Afterschool: Bringing Together Educators, Schools and Communities
We know that when the school bell rings, kids take off in all different directions....
Creating Hive Pathways to STEM Success
This post originally appeared on Hive Chicago. How we can leverage a Hive network-effect to...
Can One Teacher Change Your Life?
This post originally appeared on Facing Today, a blog of the international educational non-profit and...
Connected Educator Month Starter Kit
October, also known as Connected Educator Month, has arrived. The great news is that there are...
Take The Lights On Afterschool Webmaker Challenge!
Take The Lights On Afterschool Webmaker Challenge! Two Educator Innovator partners – the Mozilla Foundation and the...