Presentation: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able
from the Educause Learning Initiatives conference in Orlando. This presentation is part self-critique and part extension of my earlier “Portal to Media Literacy” presentation:
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Published: From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able
Academic Commons just released a great collection of essays on New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, edited by Randy Bass with Bret Eynon. I have been very impressed with depth of thought and the insights expressed not only in the other essays, but even in the... -
Seeking the Zeitgeist
I created a new tab on my Netvibes page of the feeds that help me stay on top of the latest buzz. It represents less than 10% of the feeds I actually check, but I thought it would be useful to have these particular feeds on a single page for... -
Participatory Media Literacy: Why it matters
Those of us striving to integrate participatory media literacy practices into our classes often face resistance. Other faculty might argue that we are turning away from the foundations of print literacy, or worse, pandering to our tech-obsessed students. Meanwhile, students might resist too, wondering why they have to learn to... -
The Digital Ethnographer’s Notebook: Diigo vs. Evernote vs. Tiddlywiki
I have never been happy with the standard Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) software options that have been available (or the prices!), so for the next 2 weeks I will be on a quest for the perfect fieldnotes management system that will be used by my incoming class of 15 students... -
U.S. Professor of the Year and other amazing things …
Amazing month. As many of you know, I was awarded the U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Universities, had a wonderful journey to Europe to give a couple keynote presentations, was mentioned in a little blurb by David Byrne in New York Times magazine, was showered... -
Kilpatrick on Education as Life
Daniel Willingham has an interesting response to Steve Hargadon today in the Britannica Forum (I highly recommend both articles) in which he references an article by William Kilpatrick, which I consider a must-read. In the article, Kilpatrick has some great lines like, “We have for years increasingly desired that education...
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