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    Social media in the classroom: developing new student-centred learning

Social media in the classroom: developing new student-centred learning

The Impact of Social Media project aims to provide highly interactive student-centred classroom activities for use both within and beyond the classroom. The open-access materials were designed to support the curricula in the UK and Hong Kong, but have since been taken up by teachers and students internationally. Laura Pountney is a teacher in sociology, a senior examiner for anthropology and the author of several textbooks. Laura […]

December 19th, 2018|Featured, Reflections|0 Comments|
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    “I use my phone like any other teenager would” – disabled children and young people’s uses of digital technologies for learning

“I use my phone like any other teenager would” – disabled children and young people’s uses of digital technologies for learning

How do teenagers with visual impairments use digital technologies to negotiate the world? A qualitative study of children aged 13-17 and their teachers in the North West of England has explored how young people are using such technologies to overcome barriers to learning, integrate themselves within the classroom and strengthen their social ties. Yet more needs to be done to support […]

June 20th, 2018|Featured, Research shows...|0 Comments|
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    Digital technology in school fails predictably – but is mandated anyway. Part 1: Understanding the problem

Digital technology in school fails predictably – but is mandated anyway. Part 1: Understanding the problem

The ‘Everyday Schooling in the Digital Age’ project involved an in-depth ethnography of the realities of digital technology across three contrasting Australian high schools. In the first of two posts, researcher Dr Selena Nemorin explores some of the main findings, including differences between digital media use inside and outside the classroom and communication difficulties between home and school. The next post will look at […]

April 27th, 2018|Featured, Research shows...|0 Comments|
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    Sexual harassment at school: What can young people’s gender-based activism tell us?

Sexual harassment at school: What can young people’s gender-based activism tell us?

In the era of #MeToo it is important to connect how a mass feminist movement is generating change and affecting young people. In this post, Jessica Ringrose and Hannah Retallack discuss how important it is for researchers, policy makers and pressure groups alike to take stock and evaluate what schools, teachers and students are already doing to challenge sexism and gendered and sexual violence. Jessica is a Professor of […]

March 28th, 2018|Featured, Research shows...|0 Comments|
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    Tablet totalitarianism – how an obsession with ‘screen time’ misses the point

Tablet totalitarianism – how an obsession with ‘screen time’ misses the point

With the start of the school year, backpacks will be filled with notes home to parents. Instead of the expected warnings about forgotten PE kits last year, though, one mother discovered a flyer from her child’s school exhorting parents to tell their kids to ‘PUT DOWN THAT TABLET!’ Concerned about the negative tone, and lack of balance, mum and […]

September 6th, 2017|Featured, Reflections|2 Comments|
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How the digital revolution is changing education

This post reports on the ‘Education in a Digital World’ conference, held in June 2017. Eszter Salamon shows the various changes affecting European education in the digital age, including pedagogical shifts and digital inclusion. She argues that the education system must be fundamentally adjusted to answer to the digital learning needs of the whole population. Eszter is President of the European Parents’ Association and Vice President of the […]

August 23rd, 2017|Featured, Reflections|1 Comment|
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    ‘Finding my way back to the backyard’: First-generation college students mediate between class and family

‘Finding my way back to the backyard’: First-generation college students mediate between class and family

First-generation college students face many obstacles. In this blog, Jane van Galen explores the First in Our Families project, where multimedia opportunities allow first-generation stories to speak to the work of making college more accessible and equitable. Jane, a first-generation college student herself, is Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, USA. [Header image credit: Jane […]

July 26th, 2017|Featured, Reflections|0 Comments|
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Engaging parents in after-school programs

What tools and strategies can be used to engage parents in after-school activities?  After interviewing educators and administrators in California about the methods they employ, Alexander Cho discusses the research findings of DML Research Hub. Alexander reports on various strategies that succeeded or failed for these educators, including flyers, face-to-face conversation and the use of various digital media and apps. Alexander is a […]

April 5th, 2017|Featured, Reflections|1 Comment|
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Creating the future of digital learning in the US

The 2016 National Education Technology Plan has just been released in the US, and Renee Hobbs reviews some key ideas from it, discussing how it aligns with digital and media literacy education. Renee is Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Media Education Lab, Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island, USA. [Header image credit: […]

March 15th, 2017|Featured, Reflections|3 Comments|
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Media activities in The Class

Sonia Livingstone, together with Julian Sefton-Green, followed a class of London teenagers for a year to find out more about how they are, or in some cases are not, connecting online. In this post, Sonia discusses the diverse patterns of media use and digital engagement that counter the common narrative of screens simply dominating teenagers’ lives. The book about this research project, The […]

March 9th, 2017|Featured, Our publications|1 Comment|
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