Category: Assessment
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Getting Started with Selwyn’s “Distrusting Educational Technology”
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This semester, I have shifted the focus for EDU 807 to begin immediately with more critical perspectives on educational technology. Over the past year, I have encountered the work of Neil Selwyn, and I am particularly interested in his 2014 book, Distrusting Educational Technology: Critical Questions for Changing Times. As a way to share some of…
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Wrapping Up a Semester of Digital Badging
This past fall semester provided me with an opportunity to teach an undergraduate honors seminar, focused broadly on the role of technology in our personal and professional lives. Entitled “Our Digital Selves,” I was able to work with 22 students over the 16 week semester as we engaged in some shared inquiry, some small group…
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NWP Midwest Keynote
Can I Cite That? Examining What Counts as Evidence in a Digital World “Students have a greater role and responsibility in creating new knowledge, in understanding the contours and the changing dynamics of the world of information, and in using information, data, and scholarship ethically.” ~ ACRL [googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT5vcTs8dzJKPj5AMBjKqhzXPPLtdqoRlzkvWlA5uDuDjQg3hLoarAZfNDL-Ltf69i9kCCz9lBwJcsA/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”480″ height=”299″ /] Intro…
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With Literacy and Learning for All (NWP Midwest)
With Literacy and Learning for All As students move from novice to expert in various fields of study, they must become familiar with specialized vocabulary, patterns of thinking, and specific uses of language. More than just integrating reading and writing strategies across the curriculum, as effective teachers we must invite students from diverse backgrounds to…
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Prepping for KQED Summer Bootcamp on “Developing and Assessing Digital Writers”
This week, KQED’s Bootcamp on “Developing & Assessing Digital Writers” kicks off, with the overarching idea that [b]logging can help develop your students’ digital writing by combining traditional writing (text) with a digital platform (sharing online), along with the opportunity to incorporate other forms of media-making. My role for the bootcamp will be to provide…
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Now I See It – ISTE 2018
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTRjsOFB7_PMtjT2rm3xulhH34NzYI3IBP-VT9Q3H3RdEYU49L0qqhB_vj0p051osUqx9SA4Jk-gIGm/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”480″ height=”299″ /] Participants will explore a variety of digital tools for video that can be used for instruction, remediation, and discussion, as well as student creation of video artifacts to demonstrate understanding. What kind of thinking do we want students to do? Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy – (CELT), Iowa State University Copyright Questions?…
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Ramping Up Revision – ISTE 2018
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSa7gSsWnE1ma98UxSqx-sFdXUwd0D2xdgRa22s6i3rk_WdQ4-D3009cFEBlQJ_QdRU7WXJQe5wG9Mw/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”640″ height=”389″ /] Wray’s RISE model for offering meaningful feedback (Reflect, Inquire, Suggest, Elevate). Emily Wray’s “Five Minutes of Fame” Talk about the RISE Model What Research Says About Driving Growth for Writers With Practice, Feedback and Revision by Troy Hicks NCTE: “Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing” NCTE/NWP/CWPA: “Framework for Success in Postsecondary…
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2018 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium
Digital Writing, Digital Teaching “Students have a greater role and responsibility in creating new knowledge, in understanding the contours and the changing dynamics of the world of information, and in using information, data, and scholarship ethically.” ~ ACRL [googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSNwW9DsXqfrFrkl7xLQEeTtwenD6ObOk6oXKGM8BwBDrpWGdM1K7X-EHNBK4A6SGrFR00D6cXgbtzK/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”960″ height=”569″ /] Intro Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Epistemology 5 W’s of…
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Summer Institute Presentation (Okemos, MI)
With Literacy and Learning for All As students move from novice to expert in various fields of study, they must become familiar with specialized vocabulary, patterns of thinking, and specific uses of language. More than just integrating reading and writing strategies across the curriculum, as effective teachers we must invite students from diverse backgrounds to…
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On the LMS, Wikispaces, and Where to Next
As anyone familiar with online teaching knows, critiques of content management systems, especially Blackboard (Bb), are common. From articles in the popular media, to critiques in peer-reviewed journals, to an analysis from an Bb itself on the way it is used by instructors and students, there are many, many of us out there who dislike the…