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Teachers Teaching Teachers @UOttawaEdu
The final week of the teacher education program is upon us at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education — and it is punctuated by a two-day series of professional learning seminars for teacher education candidates. I’ll be presenting to a group of students today on online inquiry. My presentation brings together some of my…
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From My Garden: A Systems Thinking Approach to Online Reading Instruction
I’ve been an appreciative contributor to the Technology in Literacies Education Special Interest Group at the International Literacy Association for a couple of years now. Here’s a link to my latest post — a reflection on how we might approach online literacies instruction in ways that are inspired by systems thinking. I’ve included a few…
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A funny thing happened when I was reading the Teachers College Record…
Hey! Look at that! Right there in between Gunther (2011) and Hanoch, Wood, Barnes, Liu & Rice (2011) — that’s my dissertation! I’ve been cited for the first time (that I know of)! And to make it even better, I’m honoured that I was first cited by my colleague, Mike DeSchryver of Central Michigan University,…
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MSU College of Education Ed Tech Conference
I’m really excited to participate in the 30th Annual College of Education Technology Conference at MSU on November 16, 2013. The title of my talk is: Teaching Online Inquiry and Synthesis of Multiple Internet Texts. I’ll be sharing ideas that I’ve been working to refine over the past year. I’m even sharing a graph from…
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Association of Independent School Librarians Summer Institute
It’s not even Christmas yet, but the executive committee of the Association of Independent School Librarians, as one might expect, take event planning and the organization of details to unprecedented heights. It’s November 14 and they’ve already launched their website advertising their Summer Institute. I’m pretty excited about this because (a) I’ll be joining them…
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Graphing the nature of strategy application
Today, I’m excited about this graph. It shows the relative duration — or the relative proportion of time — spent on ten strategic activities over five online reading sessions by a dyad of boys who, at pretest, showed the least preparation to construct an integrated understanding across multiple, multimodal Internet texts. That’s a mouthful. The…
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Online, is stopping or going more important?
I’ve got another dissertation insight to share. As I’ve analyzed the thoughts that treatment participants shared in response to the questions and scaffolding that I provided during their “practice sessions,” I’m seeing that my questions, more than anything, provided space for them to stop, think and reflect. Whether this is a “good” thing in terms…
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#digiURI Cool Tools Session
I’m gearing up to present a few sessions at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy at the University of Rhode Island. One of the “Cool Tools” sessions that I’ll host will feature Evernote as a scaffold for online inquiry. Thanks to the amazing work of colleagues and students at Ruth Fox Elementary School, I’ll be…
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Integrative Density
Another dissertation insight post. I’ve been thinking a great deal about how to measure or index integration of ideas that students have read about from multiple, multi-modal Internet texts. I’ve developed a rubric for my dissertation study. It’s fine. Like any first draft, it could surely be better but for now, it will have to…
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Do we cite our sources?
This is the first in a series of “dissertation insight” posts that I plan to record in this space. I hope the insights generate some discussion and also turn into words (very soon) that look like a publishable piece of work! Miss, do we cite our sources? Prompted by (a) a series of students who…