For those of you who don't follow my banal thoughts and minutia details of my life on Twitter, I have just returned from being on the road for two weeks. After our Boston event, I visited my grandmother in Maine, my in-laws in New Jersey, spoke to school librarians in Florida and visited my other gr...

It's the time of year when high school seniors are applying to colleges. And that can mean only one thing: college visits, those trips eager students take with Mom and/or Dad to scope out universities. Here's a transcript of one college presentation I attended recently....

It's the time of year when high school seniors are applying to colleges. And that can mean only one thing: college visits, those trips eager students take with Mom and/or Dad to scope out universities. Here's a transcript of one college presentation I attended recently....

Learning, Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media is the fourth book I’ve read in the MacArthur/MIT Press Series on Digital Media and Learning. This volume, edited by Anna Everett, is the furthest from my own field — law — and, for me, the most challenging. Prof. Everett’...

The MacArthur Foundation’s Series on New Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, includes a book called Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (2008); open access version here. I opened this book first when I was writing a chapter on Innovators, for Born Digital, a book I’...

Last month, the MacArthur Foundation, along with MIT Press, announced the release of a series of new books on youth and new media. The series is a treasure trove. I have been working my way through the six books over the past several weeks as I’m simultaneously working on late drafts of the bo...