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Poorly Educated and Poorly Connected: The Hidden Realities of Innovation Hubs
When President Barack Obama decided to kick off his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tours” in Austin it highlighted once again the city’s reputation as a growth sector in the nation’s creative and...
View ArticleTo Geekdom! What Can StarCraft II Tell Us About Attaining Geek-hood?
Not long after I first participated in the StarCraft community, I fell in love with it. I admire its members’ activism, congeniality, and camaraderie. The players built the community infrastructure...
View ArticleGender and Connected (After-School) Learning: Understanding “Can-Do” Girlhood...
A good portion of our research on the after-school activities at Freeway High School (FHS) focuses on organizations that have formed around digital media like the Digital Media Club (DMC) and the...
View ArticleGender and Connected (After-School) Learning: Understanding “Can-Do” Girlhood...
In my previous post on this topic, I introduced Michelle, a Freeway High School (FHS) student who now attends an elite private university on the east coast. In that piece, I utilized the framework of...
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Encouraging Connected Learning Means It’s Okay for Students to Opt-out
One of the purposes of developing Connected Learning environments is to support the development of the Connected Learner. The Connected Learner can, and seeks to, effectively knit together his or her...
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Sports for the Mind: How do you bring Connected Learning into the Classroom?
Ugochi Acholonu is a postdoctoral scholar for the Connected Learning Research Network looking at ways that formal learning environments can be adapted to support Connected Learning. Junaidullah Khan...
View ArticleRethinking the ‘Race Between Education and Technology’ Thesis
This year my research team has been pouring over qualitative data that we collected over a year-and-half period from Freeway High School (previously referred to as Texas City High School in earlier...
View ArticleA new year and a new book
It’s the start of a new year and time to take stock. It’s been three years since the launch of the Connected Learning Research Network and the Leveling Up project, and a year and a half since the...
View ArticleSupport the n00bs: Community Design for Inclusivity
A common topic of discussion among our team of Leveling Up researchers is how communities maintain different barriers to entry. Every community, be it an online forum for Worldwide Wrestling...
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Explaining the Research of Connected Learning
The idea of “connected learning” encompasses a way of theorising and describing the kinds of learning that take place against the grain, as it were, in places where we might not usually expect to find...
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