Author: hickstro
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Reflections on the Digital Literacy and Higher Education Winter Symposium
My first draft, unfiltered thinking from the end of our day reflections: Of course, the opportunity to meet and greet is wonderful. As we have noted, it is easy to fall into “silos” in our academic roles, and being able to talk with librarians, media literacy scholars, education scholars, doc students, and others is always…
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Analyzing Our Own Social Scholarship Profiles
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in Academic Life, Books, CMU, Collaboration, Connected Learning, Crafting Digital Writing, Digital Writing Workshop, Educational Research, Hybrid Learning, Misc. Debris, Mobile Learning, MSU, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Online Learning, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, WritingDuring our workgroup meeting this morning, Maria Ranieri has asked us to engage in an analysis of our own social profile(s), and to reflect on our decision to engage in social scholarship. For me, the choice to engage in social media began over a decade ago, while still in graduate school at MSU. The first…
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Rethinking a Wiki vs LMS for Course Design
Last year, when I first taught EDU 807, “Learning Tools in Education Technology,” one of my goals was to employ a wiki as a learning management system (LMS) so the doctoral students involved in the course could participate in a more open, collaborative form of social scholarship. I have long been an advocate of using…
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Continuing to Create a Digital Writing Project
As I reflect on our experience in the CRWP Summer Institute, and prepare for a visit to the Boise State Writing Project this weekend, as well as the NWP Annual Meeting in just a few weeks, I am trying to capture some thinking about the core principles that I employ in planning PD experiences related…
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Continuing to Create a Digital Writing Project
As I reflect on our experience in the CRWP Summer Institute, and prepare for a visit to the Boise State Writing Project this weekend, as well as the NWP Annual Meeting in just a few weeks, I am trying to capture some thinking about the core principles that I employ in planning PD experiences related…
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Reflections on “Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops”
While there are many things on which I could comment in this article, I want to focus solely on the image that readers see when they first view it. Take a look at this for a moment, and then think about the implications of this image on school laptop programs, regardless of the discussion following…
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Link to “Multiliteracies Meet Methods” Article
The article that Jeff and I wrote for English Education got a mention in a recent NCTE INBOX: Teacher educators can find useful strategies in the English Education article “Multiliteracies Meet Methods: The Case for Digital Writing in English Education” (TE). The article provides a rationale for teaching digital writing and explores the rhetorical, interactive,…
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Thoughts on “All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules”
Today, Andrea and I are presenting at the annual MSU Tech Conference, and we are both sitting here in the kiva, Macs at the ready, to listen to the following panel discussion: All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules Google recently released a number of powerful, free tools that are very useful for classroom teachers.…
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Comments on “Learning a language to welcome the future”
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,…