Last fall, Sara and I had opportunity to sit in on some conversations about MSU’s EdTech Hybrid PhD program, and Punya Mishra has recently written about this on his blog:
And finally, if you still aren’t satisfied… you can also work towards a Ph.D in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology! Designed for bright, established professionals currently [...]

An NWP colleague, Natalie Bernasconi from the Central California Writing Project, recently sent an email with some questions:
I’m interested in how infusing technology into the classroom as exemplified by Youth Voices and other initiatives changes the way teachers see their own role and their own identity.
I’m also interested in examining the relationship between teachers’ sense [...]

The CEE Web Editing Team has been hard at work, and this is the first in what we hope will become a series of regular podcasts with leaders in English Education. Please add comments to the page and continue the conversation about teaching writing in the 21st century.
Examining Writing in a Time of Change: [...]

Highlights from the keynote address at the St. Clair RESA Symposium on 21st Century Learning
August 13, 2008
Port Huron High School
Yong Zhao, MSU

Mistakes with technology and schools

Solution seeking problems — we put technology in school,
but the problems were not there or evident
Trusting the wrong agent — Whose machine is it? The
teachers? The students? What purpose does [...]

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
Room 133F Erickson [...]

Notes from Margaret Hedstrom’s “The Future of Networked Knowledge”
Overview Announcement:
Dr. Hedstrom is an archivist who is on the faculty of the School of Information at U of M. Her research interest is digital information. She has done some interesting cross cultural empirical research on user response to various methods of archiving digital files. [...]

Notes from Randy Bomer’s keynote at MRA 2008:
“Writing Transformations: How New Literacies and New Times Invite Us to Rethink Composition”

Literacy is changing, literacy as design
Obstacles: accountability measures and deficit thinking

If we are constantly trying to fill in gaps, we are not moving into the future. Looking at education from a deficit model results in damaging [...]

This promises to be an interesting new twist on the scholarship of teaching. I’ll be watching:
TCRecord: Article
Children and Puppets and Rats, Oh My TCR Welcomes After Ed TV
by Gary Natriello ? January 18, 2008
A new short-form web video channel joins the TCR home page
For 2008 the Teachers College Record is beginning a bit of an [...]

Today, I had the chance to attend an educational technology session at MSU featuring Nicole Ellison, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media, MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences, and Leigh Graves Wolf, Learning Technology and Culture Programs, MSU College of Education. Their topic is “Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How.” Here are [...]

Here is an article that I got from the NCTE Inbox newsletter that you might be able to use as you plan for curriculum revisions. Although it relies on the globalization fear as its basis, the survey shows that 2/3 of voters want these skills taught now.
eSchool News online – Voters urge teaching of 21st-century [...]