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In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute, Alan tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community. Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of "student as contributor" and to globalize our curriculum by linking students with authentic audiences from around the world. (For more, read Alan's article, Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm. http://novemberlearning.com/resources/archive-of-articles/digital-learning-farm/.)

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual proje...

Sometime last year, while negotiating a teacher contract for the KIPP Ujima Village charter middle school in Baltimore, founder Jason Botel pointed out that his students, mostly from low- income families, had earned the city's highest public school test scores three years in a row. If the union...

A tic-tac-toe game based on the Industrial Revolution that uses the principles of universal design to give students multiple ways of learning will be the U.S. representative in a worldwide competition that showcases effective teaching with technology.

Here is the final slideshow from the week of ICT workshops in Mbita. The workshops focused on building skills in student-centred pedagogies as well as how to integrate Information Communication Technologies into the curriculum. The workshops took place in Mbita, Kenya (along the shores of Lake Victoria) between August 3-7th at the Suba Youth Resource Centre where we partnered with Dan Otedo and the African centre for Women Information and Communications Technology. Special thanks to our hosts and fellow facilitators for making it such a successful week!

How to Start Engaging Students with Passion-Based Learning: Recently I attended Alan November's Building Learning Communities Conference where I