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Top 10 List for Writers
My social media news feeds are abuzz with thoughts of back-to-school today. For many teachers around the US, students have already returned. Here in Michigan and at points north in my home and native land, K-12 students will return on September 2. At Michigan State University, our fall semester officially kicks off on August 27th.…
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Sew Green: Sew White at #MACUL14
The Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) conference kicks off tomorrow and my colleague Leigh Graves Wolf and I will be hosting a mini maker faire at our Master’s in Educational Technology booth in the MACUL exhibition hall (booth #124). If you’re interested in learning how to create a felt badge that lights…
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How to Make a Paper Circuit from your MACUL Name Badge
This Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (March 12-14) I will be at the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) Conference in Grand Rapids, MI. Unlike most conferences where I present sessions, at this conference, I will be at the Master’s in Educational Technology Booth (124) in the Exhibition Hall hosting a Mini Maker Faire…
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Cooking with TPACK
I just today had one of those moments that made me really, really happy to be doing the work I do. In the summer of 2011, I took a chance on the development of a creative introduction to TPACK (Koehler & Mishra, 2008; Mishra & Koehler, 2006) for MAET students that I knew, if done…
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Taking Delight in Graduate Students’ Successes
As a graduate student, I have thought a good deal about the nature of student-professor dynamics, and about the investment one makes or feels in students when, like, you, they are already grown up. It’s easy to feel invested in children because, well, they’re children. But what is it that graduate student advisors and instructors…
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What is learning? What is technology?
This week, I started teaching the first year cohort of MSU’s Master’s in Educational Technology program in Dublin, Ireland. My colleague, Kristen Kereluik and I, asked our students two questions on the first day: What is learning? and What is technology? Always trying to embed an opportunity to explore the affordances and constraints of different…
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Online Learning, Educational Transformations and Me?
One of my students, Brent Zeise, shared this infographic with me (originally published at OnlineEducation.net). I found it incredibly compelling and so I’m sharing it here. I’m currently teaching CEP 820 — Teaching Students Online, in the Master’s of Educational Technology Program at Michigan State University. For me, this infographic is a reminder of the…
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The Simple View of Online Reading — It’s Time to Push Back
Reading comprehension researchers will know that the simple view of reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) presents reading (and reading comprehension) as a function of two factors: (a) decoding ability (D) and (b) language comprehension (LC), a composite skill that is not well articulated by the model, but that is generally understood to include vocabulary knowledge…
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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…