Category: Educational Research
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 6
With the encouragement of colleagues who have read, responded to, questioned, tweeted, retweeted, and otherwise pushed my thinking on digital reading over the past week, I want to bring this series to a close (for now). There will be more to come as Kristen and I continue to work on our book for NCTE, and…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 5
In response to one of my earlier posts this week, Will Richardson asked: So without going down the rabbit hole completely, how do you decide what feeds to read, which Flipboard magazines to sub, which Twitter users to trust enough to follow, etc.? It seems like there’s a whole ‘nother layer to “preparing to read”…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 4
As an academic working for a university, part of my job (about 40%, at least as stated on paper) is devoted to research. And, a hefty part of producing new research is knowing what research already exists so I can build on and contribute to that existing body of literature. Also, as a teacher educator,…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 3
With another set of helpful comments and questions from colleagues and readers, I am again thinking about my digital reading practices today, as I did both Monday and Tuesday this week. Kristen has again prompted my thinking for this morning’s post: Excellent. I’m changing a few practices of my own now. Still curious about when…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 2
Yesterday, I began this series of blog posts on digital reading practices with my thoughts about annotating texts, both PDFs and web-based. My colleague and co-author, Kristen Turner, asked me to step back and write about how I find reading material* to begin with: How do you find texts worthy of annotating? How do you…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 1
Last week, I began blogging about my thoughts on digital reading. At the encouragement of my co-author, Kristen Turner, I’m going to work over the next few weeks to document some of my own digital reading practices as we begin to draft the book. I will be visiting classrooms, surveying students, and interviewing teachers as…
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Thinking about Reading in a Digital Age
As the title of my blog says, I am certainly interested in the intersections of digital teaching and digital writing. Thinking about the ways that writers can use certain technologies to reach rhetorical goals has long been an interest of mine, and this fall I am turning my attention to the other side of the…
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“Tech Goes Home” Goes National
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Deb Socia, executive director of Tech Goes Home, a non-profit based Boston that has recently launched a national portal with resources for parents, teachers, and community members interested in connecting families with technology. (Quick disclaimer: I was contacted by Intel with an initial press release, but followed up…
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Brief Summary of #TheDigitalClassroom Hangout
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to be invited to an AdvancED webinar featuring: Sean Cavanagh: @EdWeekSCavanagh (Moderator), Assistant Editor for Education Week Angela Maiers: @AngelaMaiers Founder and President of Maiers Education Services Jackie Gerstein Ed.D.: @jackiegerstein Online Adjunct Faculty for Departments of Education Darren Burris: @dgburris Teacher & Instructional Coach at Boston Collegiate Charter It was an incredibly fast-paced and…
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Digital Writing (ala Chromebook)
Over the past year or so, I have been asked more and more often about my opinion on Chromebooks, and I want to offer an informed opinion. I know that many educators have taken up the conversation on Chromebooks, especially Joe Wood. Also, so I have some base of knowledge from which to speak and because…