The Young and the Digital Talks with Mind/Shift
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 23rd 2011. Under Digital Divides, Digital Media and Learning, Mobile, Mobile Learning, Social Media, Technology + Education
Tina Barseghian's site Mind/Shift is a great resource for learning about some of the most interesting trends and practices in education, schools, and the lives of young learners. Mind/Shift spotlights ... Read More
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Games, Grit, and a ‘Need to Know’
In the middle of one of the hottest and driest summers on record twenty Austin area high school students showed up for school everyday for four weeks. While the four-week ... Read More
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Digital Divides & Digital Literacies: An Ongoing Report
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 1st 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Research, Social Media, Technology + Education
Earlier this week National Public Radio's "Tell Me More" aired a conversation that I shared with Tony Cox about the digital divide. We talked about the ways in which the ... Read More
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Mobile Phones and America’s Learning Divide
Published By S. Craig Watkins On May 27th 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, Research, Technology + Education
During a recent research related visit to New York City I decided to take a stroll down 125th Street in Harlem. Among the assortment of shops and vendors on the ... Read More
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Doing Civics: What Should Civic Learning Look Like in an Age of Social and Technological Change?
Published By S. Craig Watkins On April 22nd 2011. Under Social Media, Technology + Education, Teens and Technology
Recently, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and her iCivics team convened a thought provoking conference, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age. In partnership with the Aspen Institute, ... Read More
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Social Movements in the Age of Social Media: Participatory Politics in Egypt
Published By S. Craig Watkins On February 18th 2011. Under News, Politics and Social Media, Young Adults and Technology
In the wake of the uprising that shook up Egypt and ended the thirty year regime of Hosni Mubarak a growing debate around the role of social media has ensued. ... Read More
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Defining Social Behavior Outward: Some Thoughts on the New York Times Piece About Our Facebook Study
Published By S. Craig Watkins On February 3rd 2011. Under News, Research, Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Young Adults and Technology
The New York Times' Pamela Paul writes about our Facebook study in her Sunday bi-weekly column, Studied. Her piece, Does Facebook Make Someone Social Offline?, considers one of the main ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital in PC World
Published By S. Craig Watkins On January 19th 2011. Under Book, Mobile, News, Social Media, Social Networking Sites
Last year my editor in Boston notified me that Western Washington University had selected The Young and the Digital for its Western Reads program. I learned that all new incoming ... Read More
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Breaking the Ice: Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media-A Blog Post for the Huffington Post Education
Published By S. Craig Watkins On January 10th 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, Social Media, Teens and Technology
Note: This piece also appears at the Huffington Post.
When the social and digital media revolution gained momentum at the dawn of the new millennium no one would have predicted that less ... Read More
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Got Facebook? A New Study Examines the World’s Biggest Social Network
Published By S. Craig Watkins On November 18th 2010. Under Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Young Adults and Technology
Earlier this year H. Erin Lee, a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, and I began combing through the data of a new national survey we conducted ... Read More
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