#AERA2012 – Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Teaching Participatory Media and Democracy (AERA, Part 4)

May 6, 2012

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in AERA, Educational Research, Media and Pop Culture, Notes from Other Presentations, Online Identity, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking

Let’s begin with the critique of this panel’s main premise, that social media is transforming civic education and participatory democracy. That critique was the what discussant Joel Westheimer (University of Ottawa) offered. From his perspective, the technologies that allow us to use social media — the mobile web with apps, the ability to find, share, and…

Ideas from AERA 2012 (Part 1)

Apr 17, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in AERA, English Education, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, Presentations, Teaching

Unlike many conference experiences where I am “on” for most of the time, presenting or meeting, I was able to take a slightly slower pace at AERA 2012 this weekend in Vancouver. Although the long travel days and time zone differences were a little tough to contend with, the few focused hours that I spent…

Adaptive Assessment and the Purposes of Educational Technology (AERA, Part 3)

Apr 6, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in AERA, Assessment, Educational Research, Notes from Other Presentations, Online Learning, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Virtual Learning

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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Teaching Participatory Media and Democracy (AERA, Part 4)

Ideas from AERA 2012 (Part 1)

Adaptive Assessment and the Purposes of Educational Technology (AERA, Part 3)