Another FoxTrot that seems to sum up the debate about Web 2.0. FoxTrot by Bill Amend – September 22, 2006 Not much else to say about this except that I hope we, as educators, decide what to call it so we can begin to talk about it with some continuity. I think that is part [...]

Aram alerted me to this article from the NEA which gives a pretty fair shake to wikis and Wikipedia. Here is a particularly compelling quote: But with wiki technology, students can go beyond simply reading sites to helping write them as well, fulfilling the Web’s promise of becoming a fully interactive medium. According to Frey, [...]

Another presentation here today, “Wave-Particle Theory and Composition/Rhetoric OR Why Do Mixed-Methods Research?” by Gwen Gorzelsky. Gwen Gorzelsky will explore the challenges and potential benefits of combining research methods in composition/rhetoric scholarship by describing how she brought together historical, critical, and empirical qualitative methods in her book, The Language of Experience: Literate Practices and Social [...]

In my many conversations about technology and literacy over the past few years – and especially since the Web 2.0 (or read/write web or whatever we are going to call it) phenomenon has taken off – I have heard about the wonders and wickedness of wikis, the boon and bust of blogging, and the power [...]

Another great presentation today. Here are the official details with my notes below: New York Times education columnist Samuel Freedman will visit the College next week. He will speak on “Journalism and Academic Research on Education” on Tuesday, September 19th at 2:00 p.m. in 252 EH. Freedman is a Professor at the Columbia University School [...]

Like many of you, I have read The World is Flat, and — while I agree with many of the points that Friedman makes in the text — I have been searching for a more nuanced argument, beyond reasons of pure economics, about how and why our children should become more technically proficient and multilingual, [...]

Another aspect of digital literacy will be to know when to say when. For all its utility, it’s no secret the Internet is one of the most effective distractions ever invented. That is more true among the younger generations, who are more comfortable in the online world and more apt to find hours spent surfing [...]

Here are some notes from another presentation on campus: Using Multi-Media Records of K-12 Practice as Teacher Education “Texts” by Pam Grossman and Anna Ershler Richert In this presentation we will explore the use of web-based, multi-media representations of practice in teacher education. Both of us are affiliated with the Quest project, of the Carnegie [...]

Most of you know about the Wired wiki story, I am sure, so this post is really for me to save this for posterity. And, perhaps one of the sessions that I am co-facilitating at NWP this November. Wired News: The Wiki That Edited Me

Here is an article that features a summary of the great work being done by the New Literacies Research Team. I saw them at AERA earlier this year and I think that they are on to some interesting points about online reading, especially in light of all the Wikipedia-ish concerns this summer. Study aims to [...]