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Nairobi PLAY!
In a few weeks I’ll be launching the Nairobi Play Project, a creative computing program implemented in partnership with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, which equips urban refugee youth and Kenyan youth in Nairobi with technical skills (STEAM), 21st century skills and a peace-building model to support the local integration of urban refugee youth…
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Scratch ON!
A few weeks ago, Ryan and I had the opportunity to attend and run a workshop at the Scratch conference at the MIT Media Lab in Boston…it was awesome. Educators from across the world participated to deliver workshops, give ignite talks and engage in a massive knowledge exchange about one of the most powerful platforms…
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Fundraising, Poverty Porn and Transforming Global Development Practice
Reposted from Tammin Sursok’s blog “Bottle and Heels.” If you’ve recently watched television past 10:30pm on a Saturday night, then you’ve probably had to endure a two-minute infomercial of “Who’s the Boss” star Alyssa Milano, pleading for donations. The infomercial, littered with images of frail children from across the Global South in tattered dusty clothing,…
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Good Narrative, Good Game
This was written with my colleague Sarah Giffin from Global Kids for The National STEM Video Game Challenge. REPOST! Games-based learning is fun, effective and powerful, but it doesn’t come without its challenges. At Global Kids we run a few different game design programs which address social and global issues. One obstacle we’ve faced across…
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MozFest 2015: Cracking the Youth Leadership Code
Most practitioners in the DML field would agree that youth leadership is a critical piece of positive youth development in digital learning contexts. Unfortunately, we’re lacking a robust set of strategies to foster it genuinely and successfully. The annual Mozilla festival at Ravensbourne College in London, a gathering packed with unconventional workshops, inspiring talks and…
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