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Transmedia for Social Change

Today I attended the final day of an intensive workshop event hosted by Working Films. The event brought together a diverse group of talented filmmakers, powerful activists, and leaders in the education sector – I was lucky I got to crash their party! In their own words, it was: a residential workshop designed to help …

Posted 15 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Thanks for your feedback Lynn…

Programming as a New Literacy

I've just read Douglas Rushkoff's shortbook Program or Be Programmed, wherein he shares "Ten Commands for a Digital Age." Though his portrayal of various "biases" of digital technology (e.g., timelessness, abstraction, depersonalization) is polemical, he succinctly describes major challenges of new technologies in 144 pages. His main point is to describe a new literacy – …

Posted 16 months ago by Brian Hughes

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On unlimited wealth, or the dream of it

I have begun reading Linchpin by Seth Godin. One topic I find interesting is Godin's support of the idea of an "unlimited" market ("Limited or Unlimited," p. 30). I am always struck by the optimism of this perspective. For on this view, one should not behave as if there is a limited market for goods, …

Posted 26 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Wow, this is a really interesting look at the data…

Awards for online learning tools

I was just perusing the great set of professional development resources our EdLab team created for the Teaching the Levees project, and I'm saddened that there are no awards for online learning resources. OK, so I'm not entirely surprised. (Would any existing award include this in anything but a minor way?) Short of finding …

Posted 48 months ago by Brian Hughes

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