Category: Virtual Learning
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Foreword for “Applying the Flipped Classroom Model to English Language Arts Education”
Recently, my colleagues Clarice Moran (Kennesaw State University) and Carl Young (North Carolina State University) released their new edited collection – Applying the Flipped Classroom Model to English Language Arts Education. I was honored that they asked me to write the foreword from the book, which is available as a free download from IGI. Check out…
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Can We Make Online (Graduate School) Discussions Suck Less?
As many of you know, and have probably experienced, discussions in online classes can be notoriously bad. At best, many online courses feign discussion as a pseudo-cooperative (and not a collaborative, generative) task, and students engage because they are required to connect with the content and with one another. At worst, the tasks are perfunctory and just…
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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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DLDay 2014 NCTE Chat
In the next few weeks, I will be participating in a few events related for Digital Learning Day. Here’s one of them: January 19, 2014: Celebrate Digital Learning! As you prepare for Digital Learning Day (#DLDay) — February 5, 2014 — join two NCTE members and edubloggers for a conversation about classroom technology’s past, present,…
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Please Join Us: K-12 Teaching in the 21st Century MOOC
Though I am a little late to the MOOC movement, I’m excited to be participating in a venture this fall — K-12 Teaching in the 21st Century — that will be facilitated by Rick Ferdig, Kristine Pytash, and a host of other educators from around Michigan. Here is a quick summary, and you can register…
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Adaptive Assessment and the Purposes of Educational Technology (AERA, Part 3)
Roy Pea has long-studied educational technology and, in this interchange with Larry Cuban hosted by Tapped In, reminds us that: A second caution is replacing flesh with silicon. The point here about technology is to augment physical, hands-on learning, face-to-face encounters, not to replace it, and yet, certainly, there may be places that come to…
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Webinar with ENG 315
Earlier this evening, I spent my ENG 315 class time for the night teaching via webinar rather than in a F2F session. Using CMU’s access to Wimba, I invited my students to post three slides related to their experience attending a conference or otherwise engaging in personalized professional development this semester. Also, we back-channeled in…
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2010 MVU Online Learning Symposium
Notes from 2010 Michigan Virtual University Online Learning Symposium November 9, 2010 at Michigan State University Opening Keynote: Steve Midgley, Deputy Director of Education Technology, US DOE Context National Technology Plan (released just today), Four Components: Mobility, Social Interactions, Digital Content, Print to Online This does not mean that we will have a “teacherless” curriculum,…