This morning, I am pleased to be a part of Littleton Public Schools’ Adolescent Literacy Institute, and I am able to participate in Harvey “Smokey” Daniels’ keynote, “Best Practice Across the Curriculum.” Here are some notes from his session: Goals for today Define “Best Practice” Consider the missing link: student collaboration Watch video of kids [...]

Testing a TPACK-Based Technology Integration Assessment Rubric Judi Harris, Neal Grandgenett, and Mark Hofer Looking at the work of TPACK over the past five years Much exploration of the construct — what does it look like? About two years ago, more work about how to help teachers develop TPACK Now we are interested in finding [...]

The Gap Between Life and Art: Remix Culture for Learning Erin Reilly, University of Southern California Project New Media Literacies Context of remix culture One in four online teens remix content that they find online (like songs, text, and images) and remix them into their own artistic creations Remixing media is a part of participatory [...]

Alfie Kohn, an outspoken critic of traditional schooling and standardized testing, spoke at CMU on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Here are some notes I captured from his talk, “Overhauling the Transmission Model: An overview of traditional versus progressive teaching” You may know if you have been a student or teacher that learning is not simply [...]

Tomorrow, I will be presenting two sessions at the Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference. Here are descriptions of the sessions and the related presentations: From School to Screen: Why Digital Writing Matters (9:30 – 10:45) Without question, writing continues to change in the twenty-first century. Teachers, administrators, parents, and other stakeholders value the [...]

The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development At NWP’s Digital Is Rafi Santo, Amana Kaskazi, and Shonell Richmond Global Kids 20 Years in existence and focusing on significant global issues Issues: Local to global and global to local understanding Leadership: Skills necessary to affect change Technology: How does new media contribute [...]

NOTE: This was written yesterday in the post-conference, pre-flight moments that I had on the train from downtown to the airport. Since my flight didn’t arrive in Lansing until about 1:30 AM last night, I was just now able to put the finishing touches on it. Hope it makes some sense… Sunday, January 25, 2009 [...]

Notes from 21st Century Assessment Session Konrad Glogowski What we know about assessment Assessment is the tail that wags the curriculum dog Grades with substantive comments have the most impact on learning What impact does a blogging community have on the role of the teacher? Reflecting on what happens in the classroom, both online and [...]

Notes from “Using Social Media to Define the New Humanities” – Antonio Viva Thinking about new humanities Context, conversation, collaboration How do we educate our students for success in the web 2.0 world? Can we harness the power of social media to provide students with a vehicle for exploring and creating original content? Old School [...]

Another great session this week, this time with one of the co-authors of the Writing Next report: Steve Graham. Here is an overview from the MSU LARC site: Steve Graham, Vanderbilt University Evidence-Based Practice in Writing – Drawing on Experimental, Qualitative, and Single Subject Design Research for Answers Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:30am – 1:00pm [...]