Category: Teaching
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Rethinking My Relationship with Ed Tech
So, with 2019 officially underway, I am hoping that today is the first day of a year that I spend (at least some) focused time blogging. I’ve been at this since 2006, and I’ve had good years and bad ones, productive blogging periods and deep fallows. While I am making nothing even close to a…
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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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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)
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRxA4CtIfkTQ2sDZ_JGk86CSizw2u2QyHaKeGo6wKR3Mrcjs7IOQ2YF4gP7QcBxf88n7qM5RuImBi09/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”480″ height=”299″ /] Resources Shanahan, T., & Shanahan, C. (2008). Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content- Area Literacy. Harvard Educational Review, 78(1), 40–59. Video clip of Cynthia Shanahan talking about disciplinary literacy Robinson, K. (2011). Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 3-D Bloom’s Taxonomy from Iowa State…
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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…
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Badging and Blending, Writing and Learning
Badges. Writing-intensive. Active learning. Blended learning. Oh, my. These have been the buzzwords that have permeated professional conversations over the past few years, and have guided my path in developing the seminar course for Honors students that I am currently teaching, “Our Digital Selves.” Offered as a course for a group of 22 freshmen while…
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Preparing to “Build a Better Book”
As often happens in my professional life, earlier this year, I was invited to lead a session broadly related to teaching writing and digital literacy, specifically for middle school students. Unlike my previous experiences, however, this particular opportunity came from CMU’s Center for Excellence in STEM Education‘s partnership with the Build a Better Book Project.…
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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…