Category: Mobile Learning
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Conversation with NCTE Colleagues for Digital Learning Day
As we near Digital Learning Day 2016, coming up this Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to be invited by NCTE to speak with Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick and my colleagues Bill Bass, Franki Sibberson, and Kristen Turner. Though I am grateful that we are turning our national attention to digital learning on this day, I…
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(New) Pathways to Leadership
The past two days (and into tomorrow), I’ve had the good fortune to be in Austin, TX, amongst a group of dedicated National Writing Project colleagues. As with all NWP events, it has been intellectually challenging and emotionally rewarding, inviting us to think about what it means for us — as site leaders who have…
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(A)Syncronicty and Online Learning
While the semester officially starts tomorrow, I had scheduled an online session with my EDU 807 students tonight via Zoom as a kick-off to the semester. As it happens, this first week of class also coincides with a trip to Austin for a meeting of the National Writing Project for the “New Pathways to Leadership”…
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Hosting #engchat Next Week
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in Assessment, Best Practice, Books, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Digital Reading, Educational Research, English Education, Hybrid Learning, Internet Research, Literacy, Mobile Learning, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Online Learning, Online Reading, Professional Development, Reading in a Digital Age, Reflections, Teaching, WritingThis next Monday, Kristen Turner and I host #engchat for a conversation on Connected Reading. Here’s the announcement: Recently, a friend of Kristen’s on Facebook posted a GIF that showed the evolution of a desk. In 1980 the desk was covered with items: books, newspapers, magazines; a fax, phone, stapler and tape dispenser; a rolodex,…
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Resource Round Up
As anyone who has followed my blog probably knows, there are no ads. No banners. No AdSense. No clickbait. I don’t accept advertising nor do I often pass along information from others. Sadly, as Dan Meyer explained many years ago, many people make many dollars from those clicks, and I think that educators and parents…
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Discussing “Connected Reading” on Education Talk Radio
In case you missed it… Last Thursday, Kristen Turner and I were able to chat with host Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio about our new book, Connected Reading. For more information on the book, visit our wiki page. Enjoy! Check Out Education Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with EDUCATION TALK RADIO PRE K -20…
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Hosting #engchat on 1/12/15
As more and more students bring mobile devices to school, we have more opportunities (and challenges) to teach reading and writing, speaking and listening. For next week’s #engchat conversation (1/12/15 at 7:00 PM EST), join co-authors Jeremy Hyler (@Jeremybballer) and Troy Hicks (@hicsktro) as they share some strategies from their book, Create, Compose, Connect! Reading,…
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One-To-One Technology ‘Is Really About Building Effective Relationships’
My thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for the invitation to respond to his EdWeek Teacher Blog question: What are the Dos and Don’ts of having a successful one-to-one computing (where every student at a school gets a device) program? Check out the post to see responses from Alice Barr and Mark Pullen as well. This work is licensed under…