Imagination and STEM education: Playing Little Alchemy
This summer I have been working with KLRU-Austin PBS in a collaborative project with 18 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) summer camps. Part of ...
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Learning with Digital and Participatory Maps
In the digital era, maps are everywhere -from large-scale displays within galleries and museums, to mobile smartphone screens. Not only do maps allow us to navi...
Evolving Digital Inequalities: Understanding the Changing Countours of Divides and Gaps
Over the last three decades, the rapid development and adoption of digital technology infrastructures, tools, and practices, has given rise to a new communicati...
Gamification and Learning Environments
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to contribute to the MediaCommons project by joining a survey on “How does gamification affect learning?” The id...
Performing an Ignite Talk at DML 2013
Two weeks ago I did a presentation at the Digital Media and Learning Conference (DML 2013 : Democratic Futures) in the format of an Ignite Talk. This format is ...
Visualizing Learning and Media Ecologies
At the Digital Edge, the research group I have been working for the past 20 months, we have been studying the digital media and learning practices of young peop...
Towards a Broad and Inclusive Definition of Media Literacy
Media literacy definitions have been in flux during the 20th century. Scholars, policy makers, educators, and activists from Europe, Australia, and North Americ...