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Project-Based Learning: Eight Essential Elements
It’s Day 1 at South by Southwest Education (SXSWEdu), and already I’m feeling the buzz. There’s a great conference room in the Austin Convention Center, complete with a super-size front projection...
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When Literacy Goes Digital
The anticipation is killing me, as David Cooper Moore and myself are moving into last-minute countdown mode for the release of our new book, Discovering Media Literacy: Teaching Digital Media and...
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The Future of Online Learning
I went to Israel to learn about the future of online learning as part of the Center for Educational Technology’s conference, Shaping the Future 2: Innovation, Education and Entrepreneurship. As a...
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Inquiry Learning with Pop Culture: Start a Revolution
School doesn’t have to be about loading up on all the “fact bricks” of stuff that “needs to be known.” It should be a place where we cultivate and nurture the intellectual curiosity of children and...
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Media Literacy’s Big Tent at NAMLE 2013
Every two years, the media literacy community gathers for its bi-annual conference, and this July 12 – 13, we met in Los Angeles. I was honored to work with NAMLE Conference Program Chair Erin Reilly...
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CLEMI at 30
What a pleasure to attend the conference and celebration event on November 15, “Le Clemi a 30 Ans.” Held in Paris at the Cite Universite, more than 400 educators, students and media professionals were...
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The Future of Work
I’ve been aiming to inspire the URI Harrington School graduates by tweeting out information about three job opportunities each day. Check out out my Twitter feed to find them! It’s not hard to find...
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Evolution in Ed Media
There’s never been a better time for the re-invention of educational media. Honestly, it’s a veritable Golden Age for the field, what with John and Hank Green working their magic with the Crash Course...
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National Ed Tech Plan 2016
I’ll be the first to admit that I have not been a fan of the federal government’s approach to educational technology. In 2010, the National Educational Technology Plan, which was subtitled, “Learning...
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Take Joy
In my life as a learner, I have always followed my bliss. I had understood the educational power of flow, that magical state of being, so elegantly described by the psychologist Mike Csikszentmihalyi....
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