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notes from the {computational} revolution
As part of an ongoing effort to design a model for integrating computational technologies into the formal classroom, I have turned my focus to computational literacy. My current model already has a...
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why I am not a constructionist
and why you should expect more from my model for integrating technologies into the classroom I recently showed some colleagues my developing model for integrating computational technologies into the...
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short-sighted and socially destructive: Ning to cut free services
Lord knows I’m not a huge fan of Ning, the social networking tool that allows users to create and manage online networks. I find the design bulky and fairly counterintuitive, and modifying a network...
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principles for ethical educational research
I’ve been thinking lately about the burden of speaking for others. Because I’m an educational researcher, and speaking for others is the heart of what we do. We walk into a classroom, watch some things...
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how Jim Gee and I soothe our guilty consciences
In the video below of a presentation to the Education Writers Association 2010 Annual Conference, Jim Gee says this about how to introduce innovative ideas into education: There’s a choice of...
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on cheating, standardized testing, and the coming decade
A few iterations of myself ago, I was a college composition and literature instructor. Anyone who’s taught this particular category of courses knows that cheating is an enormous issue: take the...
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my ‘I come from’ poem
I’m helping to teach a course this semester for pre-service secondary writing teachers. On the first day of class, we all wrote “I come from” poems. This is an activity that comes from Linda...
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now begins the experiment
I started teaching college students nine years ago, when I was a graduate student in Colorado State University’s Creative Writing program. After I finished up there, I spent a few years as an adjunct...
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Lots of academics and teachers think trigger warnings in college classrooms signal the decline of deep, authentic inquiry into complex social issues. They believe trigger warnings are a symbol of the...
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