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In a click: Podcast with Jamilee Baroud
I had the chance to meet up with Jamilee Baroud this week to record an episode for her new Podcast called In a Click. Jamilee is an up-and-coming superstar in the ed-tech/critical digital literacies research community and it has been such a privilege to work with her during her PhD program at the University of…
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What if we taught kids about social media by asking them to reverse engineer it?
A couple of weeks ago, the parent council at our neighbourhood school hosted an evening lecture by a prominent social media expert. Earlier that day, the speaker had also given tips to all of the junior and intermediate kids in the school, my nine-year-old daughter included. I decided I should probably go to hear the…
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CATE Graduate Student Panel: Curating a digital online presence
Thanks to Trista Hollweck for the invitation to share my most recent thinking about the role of a curated digital professional presence in an academic career. Slides above. There will be much discussion. I will add questions and revise this post after the session to capture the in-the-moment thinking that we do together.
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CSSE-SCÉÉ19: Layered literacies practices during a Maker activity
À la conférence de la Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation à Vancouver, ma collègue Julie-Anne Turner et moi présenterons nos recherches collaboratives, faites avec Megan Cotnam-Kappel et Janette Hughes, sur les dimensions des littératies observées au cours d’une activité Bricoleur. Voici les diapos où nous résumons notre projet. The working draft of this article…
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Digital Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities: CATE Panel @CSSE 2019
Speaker Notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iJViTMHik7Tgtq5sBPfRf-BBvcxoizJ4raZrvaZWgVk/edit?usp=sharing I’m really privileged to participate in an open panel discussion on Rights and Responsibilities of Digital Citizenship at the Canadian Society for Studies in Education conference. I’ve posted my slides here plus a link to my speaker notes. The references that I’ve used to think through these remarks are offered here for…
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Repost: “The Makerspace is the heart of our school” : A model for Making that values community, inclusion, and student agency
Ceci est une deuxième version, légèrement rédigée, de l’affichage blogue qui a été publié premièrement au site web du International Literacy Association. Vous pouvez accéder à cette première version ici. This is a version of a post that first appeared at the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Today Blog. I have been contributing to their Teaching…
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New Article: Digital literacies learning in contexts of development
In July of 2018, the International Development Research Centre of Canada invited me to conduct an external review of key findings in a set of 44 reports of research on digital learning. The reports, funded between 2016 and 2018 were incredibly diverse in their methods, questions, and findings. That report (currently in press with the…
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New Paper: AERA 2019
This week, I am privileged to present, with my colleagues Dr. Megan Cotnam-Kappel, Julie-Anne Turner and Dr. Janette Hughes, a report of research on the layered literacies practices used by three fifth-grade students as they worked through phases of an interdisciplinary project that included elements of online reading and research, Making, and multimodal composition. In…
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Making as embodied learning
In this short article, Megan Cotnam-Kappel and I rethink the inextricable links between learning and physical action. We position making with digital and physical tools as a pedagogical approach that aligns, theoretically, with embodiment. This is a pre-print version of the work, which will appear in the University of Ottawa’s Education Review this spring. Suggested…
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Ontario Makers, Mentors and Innovators Conference 2018
The University of Ottawa’s Richard Labbé Makerspace is an incredible — dare I say, a national — treasure. This fall, it moved from its original spaces in the Colonel By building to the shiny new STEM complex where, Dr. Hanan Anis and her management team led by Zaineb Al-Faisley and Justine Boudreau, have taken their…