Free Study Guide for Digital & Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet
Just in time for the holiday season, a new study guide for the book is available!
Why We Need to Teach Kids to be Skeptical of Everything
Just last week, a relative of mine posted an image on Facebook that grabbed my attention. I teach juniors and seniors in a Media and Design class, and our first project was based around image editing. At first glance, the photo just didn’t look right. The next day, I showed the image to my students,…
Teaching Kids About Healthy, Responsible & Impactful Uses of Social Media
This post contains excerpts from my newly released book, Digital and Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet: Practical Classroom Applications, which is now available on Amazon. Social Media and Mental Health A 2017 Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) social media study of 1500 young people in the UK from ages 14 to…
Student Online Privacy
What Educators Need to Know About How Companies Track Their Students This post contains excerpts from my newly released book, Digital and Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet: Practical Classroom Applications, which is now available on Amazon. In the classroom, there is not much that individual educators can do about how companies and ISPs track their students…
Growing Up Online
This is second post in a series related to the content in my upcoming book, Digital and Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet: Practical Classroom Applications. One thing that I have learned from working with young people in a technology classroom for the last decade is that we both overestimate and underestimate the…
Teach Kids How the Internet Works
Welcome to the first installment of my blog series focused on my upcoming book, Digital and Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet: Practical Classroom Applications. I always start the year with my freshmen making sure that they have a basic, underlying understanding of how the Internet works. I ask them to explain how…
Digital & Media Literacy Blog Series
I am thrilled to announce that my book, Digital and Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet: Practical Classroom Applications (Rowman & Littlefield) will be released in November 2019. This book was a labor of love and a unique opportunity to reflect on and dig deeper into the themes and content that I have…
Some Thoughts on AI in the Classroom
As I look at the conference offerings for this year’s ISTE conference, I am concerned to see Alexa-focused sessions about how to incorporate the device into your classroom. I have an Amazon Dot in my kitchen, which I purchased on a whim a few years ago and use for listening to podcasts, checking the weather,…
Deepfakes in the Classroom
Just this past week, a video of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg emerged on Instagram that featured a real video address with lip synced audio that refers to the power that Facebook has built using its users’ data. The dubbed voice, unlike the deepfake released of President Obama by researchers at the University of Washington in…
Everything Doesn’t Always Have to Be Awesome on Social Media
As I was scrolling LinkedIn today (this is something I just started doing recently), I felt the need to dust off this blog and slowly emerge from what feels like eons of silence here. I came across a post by Mingda T, a UX Designer intern, that immediately grabbed my attention. It started with “I’m…