Let’s begin with the critique of this panel’s main premise, that social media is transforming civic education and participatory democracy. That critique was the what discussant Joel Westheimer (University of Ottawa) offered. From his perspective, the technologies that allow us to use social media — the mobile web with apps, the ability to find, share, and [...]
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One of the considerations that I am keeping in mind as we re-imagine the midtier field placement for ENG 315 is to wonder if and how we could conceive of it, at least in part, as an opportunity for service learning. While it is critically important that our students spend time in elementary and middle [...]
Roy Pea has long-studied educational technology and, in this interchange with Larry Cuban hosted by Tapped In, reminds us that: A second caution is replacing flesh with silicon. The point here about technology is to augment physical, hands-on learning, face-to-face encounters, not to replace it, and yet, certainly, there may be places that come to [...]
Earlier today, I was sent a request for an email interview from a CMU undergraduate. I only had a quick turnaround time to reply (so she could get enough info to write her paper about technology in education), but her deadline encouraged me to be brief in my responses. With her permission, I share her [...]
Notes from 2010 Michigan Virtual University Online Learning Symposium November 9, 2010 at Michigan State University Opening Keynote: Steve Midgley, Deputy Director of Education Technology, US DOE Context National Technology Plan (released just today), Four Components: Mobility, Social Interactions, Digital Content, Print to Online This does not mean that we will have a “teacherless” curriculum, [...]
A smorgasbord of sessions from SITE 2010 with the notes I was able to catch from each (some more than others)… enjoy! Technology Enhanced Collaboration – Schools and Teachers Engaged in Professional Development Tim Frey, Kansas State University Context Two districts that are 65 miles apart and both rural 20 teachers, K-12 (web cam and stipend) Online [...]
The Evolution of Teacher Education in a Digital Learning Era: Transforming Knowledge in the Global Network Lisa Dawley, Boise State University The Unavoidable Evolution in Teacher Education Travels around the world, others saying that American students are creative; yet, still calls for reform, especially in teacher education, keep happening here in US New US EdTech [...]
Notes from “Pre-Service English Teachers and Web 2.0: Teaching and Learning Literacy with Digital Applications” Luke Rodesiler and Lauren Tripp, University of Florida Helping pre-service teachers re-imagine what it means to be literate Tools including VoiceThread, PBWorks, and Xtranormal Theoretical framework including social constructionism, interactional elements of effective literacy instruction and how texts are constructed [...]
Doug Hartman, from MSU’s Literacy Achievement Resource Center, spoke at MRA 2010 on “The Future of Reading and Writing at the Present Time: Preparing Students and Teachers for the 21st Century.” Update – 3/30/10 – Embedded Slideshare Presentation MRA 2010 Conference Session View more presentations from Douglas K. Hartman. He outlined four shifts that are [...]
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 [...]
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