Where do social action, art, music, technology, media, pop culture, and most importantly, student needs intersect?
Here are some Voter Education and Civics Education PSAs NTH@C Rookies created for our Election 2012 project in November. Here's a video created for an anti-bullying campaign learners created for elementary school students.
What a great event to celebrate how digital tools have transformed education!
Digital Learning Day is February 1, 2012. Although I will also be exploring the best way to get my students to write/read digitally for that day, it dawned on me that we, as educators, need to continue...
via digitalis.nwp.org What are you doing for Digital Learning Day? I would love to hear your ideas. Anyone else trying to get the whole school involved? How are you doing this? Thanks for your input!!
I am most intrigued by James Paul Gee's notion of gamers having an arsenal of identities to choose from when playing video games. Isn't that the case for most of us in this participatory culture of ours? We all have various identities that we carry with us. Be it mother, student, teacher, consultant, blogger, wife, daughter, etc. These are the many hats we wear, and like it or not, we cannot or should not try to be all of these identities at once. There is a time and a place, a context specific for each identity...