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Top 10 Ways to Ensure Teachers Will Never Integrate Technology
Sometimes, when I’m trying to figure out what TO do, it helps to first think about what NOT to do. I’ve found this to be a particularly helpful strategy when I’m designing professional development or thinking about a particularly difficult problem. Setting up the antithetical somehow helps to sharpen my focus on what I’d like…
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How do I use Hootcourse to support participation in my classroom?
http://hootcourse.com/course/1437/g6i2tuhtirin4h6/?type=mini Yesterday, I helped to lead a professional development day with teachers at Ruth Fox Elementary School in North Branch, MI. The MSU PD Team, lead by Doug Hartman, has been working with the teachers at Ruth Fox for a year and a half to support their strategic integration of technology in their pedagogical practice.…
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Learning about Personal Learning Networks
I like this one a whole lot. Thanks OurSocialVoice. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSH5TMYlz4&feature=player_embedded]
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Screencasting in College History Courses?
My husband teaches history at a small liberal arts college in Michigan. The education students receive there is, in my view, absolutely exemplary. Professors are completely dedicated to undergraduate teaching (in stark contrast to the recent critique offered by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa on the abysmal state of undergraduate learning nation-wide; NPR Story). The…
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MSU Press Release re: SSHRC Award 2011-2012
MSU College of Education News
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A Lesson in Affordances, Constraints and The Discovery of What I Didn’t Know
Last week, my 5-year old daughter was inspired to write her first book. It was a glorious moment in parenting. My husband and I beamed with pride — our daughter a) can write b) thinks of herself as a writer c) drew detailed pictures which she then described with her very best, phonologically reasoned spellings…