Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

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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 [...]

Thanks to Tracy Mercier (@vr2ltch) for capturing my unfolding thought process as I responded to The Majestic Plastic Bag — and invited others to do the same — during an #engchat conversation about digital mentor texts on April 23rd. I think I may have coined a new phrase, at least in the pedagogical sense, mashing [...]

Here we are with another month having passed us by and it seems like I’m struggling with a number of issues related to digital learning, in some senses, but more broadly on issues of school reform and how we will ever be able to set the ship of education sailing in the right direction again. [...]

This afternoon, second year students in MSU’s Master of Arts in Educational Technology presented a conference – in person and virtually – for their teaching colleagues: RELATe (Rouen Educational Leadership and Technology Conference, #relate11). This conference comes in the middle of the 4 week summer program, and is one of the main projects for Year 2 [...]

Random notes and ideas from day one at Computers and Writing 2011: Opening Town Hall Susan Antlitz — how and why do we want interactive spaces for teaching? Sharon Cogdill — how do technologies control us? Bradley Dilger — reading and writing code, using small amounts of code to attain big results Patricia Freitag Ericsson [...]

So, I just finished hosting the lightening round of Tweeting that is know as #engchat (wiki link). I sat down sat down at Panera with my bread bowl at about 6:45, thinking that I would have time to eat and follow a casual conversation. An hour later, there were so many great ideas that emerged [...]

As I whittle away some time between flights on my way to visit colleagues at the Boise State Writing Project this weekend, I finally have a few moments to capture some thoughts about my experience leading the book club conversation on the English Companion Ning during the month of September. Overall, I want to start [...]

Tomorrow, I have the privilege of keynoting the Eastern Michigan Writing Project’s fall conference, “Writing Beyond Expectations.” I have been giving a great deal of thought to the event, and as both a teacher educator and writing project director, have been trying to figure out how to frame my talk in light of the conference [...]

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 [...]

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