Author: Elyse Eidman-Aadahl

  • (Im)Material girls living in (im)material worlds:Identity curation through time and space

    NWP is proud to be a supporter of Global Conversations in Literacy Research, a free and open-access series of webinars with literacy researchers world-wide. The Digital Is community might be particularly interested in the next webinar, January 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET, with Julia Davies from the University of Sheffield. Julia’s presentation draws on a project…

  • Education Week offers (currently) free collection of Spotlight articles on Digital Literacy

    Given their short length, journalistic style and concrete references to K-12 settings and initiatives, many educators use EdWeek Spotlight articles in professional development settings. So you might want to take a look at their collection on Digital Literacy, currently available as a free download at EdWeek. They’ll want to collect your name, school, etc in…

  • Tips and Tools for YouTube

    Looking across the wealth of Digital Is resources, I can’t help but notice the importance of video sharing as a central tool in digital writing and the sharing of practice. And so, I tip my hat to those services, Vimeo and YouTube in particular, that have supported a user-driven video revolution on the Internet. I’ve…

  • Power to the Online People [Infographic]

    Sarah Wenger at Open Site shares this infographic aimed at preserving the open web.

  • Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century

    The National Research Council (NRC) has released a new report on 21st century skills in the classroom and work environments. From the NRC: Business, political, and educational leaders are increasingly asking schools to integrate development of skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration into the teaching and learning of academic subjects.  These skills…

  • Connecting with Personal Artifacts: a teaching idea from Traci Gardner

    Traci Gardner, who has blogged her and blogs at Bedford Bits, has been working through ways to explore connected learning within the confines of an academic writing course. She’s working out an idea over there; here’s a taste: Connecting with Personal ArtifactsBedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition I found a writing activity last week when…

  • The future belongs to the curious

    An announcement that Skillshare would be on the Future of Education series reminded me to think more about Skillshare (which is an online platform for peer learning like P2PU). It is a project that aims to democratize learning by enabling “anyone to learn anything from anyone, anywhere.” Setting aside hyperbole and the questions about quality teaching which make us…

  • Personalization vs. differentiation vs. individualization

    Many of us would argue that one of the affordances of digital media and the internet is a freedom of access to information and learning opportunities that allow for greater personalization of learning. As a result, “personalization” has become a buzzword among us edu-geek types, and the most recent ISTE convention was a prime example.…

  • JSB’s great DML keynote now available

    If you’ve been following the tweet stream from the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco these past few days, you have probably seen rave reviews for the keynote by John Seely Brown. If you want to check it out on video, we have it here for you at Digital Is. Find it…

  • Happy Digital Holidays!

    Wishing all of you across the Digital Is community the very digital best for the holidays and the New Year.