Category: Professional Development
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Archived Webinar: “Multimodal Composition: Beyond Boring Nonfiction”
Earlier this summer, I was invited to collaborate with colleagues from the organization who runs Wonderopolis, the National Center for Families Learning, to co-lead a webinar with their Developmental Editor, Wendee Mullikin. We discuss ways in which teachers can use Wonderopolis as engaging texts for their readers, pivoting into ways that these “wonders” can then…
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Digital Diligence (SIDL 2019 Keynote)
For the fourth consecutive summer, I am honored to present the Thursday morning keynote at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy. Over the past year, I have become increasingly concerned about dire headlines that move beyond the “kids these days” kinds of arguments we have heard in the past to a deeper, more disconcerting tone…
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Teaching, Learning, Living: Using Writing to Nurture Personal and Professional Growth
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Digital Literacy Resource from USC Rossier School of Education
Earlier this spring, I was contacted by Brian Poles from 2U on behalf of USC’s Rossier School of Education, and he shared their new digital literacy resource, their “Toolkit for Digitally Literate Teachers.” They make the case that “Digital literacy skills have become essential to academic, career and interpersonal success,” and the resources provided delve…
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Reading the Individual Newsletter
In the first post of this series, I outlined some of my general reading habits, and in the second, and third, I was thinking about some of the (semi) automated or organization newsletters that I get on a regular basis. Without bots or a whole team to help move things along, I am always interested in the…
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Reading the Organizational Newsletter
As noted in the first post in this series, I’m trying to unpack some of my daily digital reading habits. In addition to the (semi) automated daily newsletter that comes from social media updates, there are also a regular stream (sometimes a flood) of newsletters that come from various groups. I generally categorize and read…
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Slides from “The Circle is Ruining My Social Life”
As a parent, researcher, and teacher educator, I am constantly trying to figure out the ways in which we frame our conversations about screentime. Are we trying to monitor (police, surveil) our children’s online activities? Similarly, are we trying to manage (perhaps even micromanage) our children’s online activities? Or, are we trying to mentor (model,…
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Can I Cite That – Drew University (October 25, 2018)
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Digital Literacy Resources (TCW Symposium)
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TCW Symposium Keynote
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTowlqVxP-dDuD-NPlUHOyD8QTSM207jFNxfSnULAybAskJX1XKVc6daVIn–y2ZM91jQGlat4H4XE-/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”480″ height=”299″ /] Intro Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Epistemology 5 W’s of Website Credibility from the web-based lesson, “Evaluating Websites“ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education Books from NWP Colleagues Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America TeachThought Podcast with Chris Goering Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing in…