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TPCK: Making Old-ish Frameworks New
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” Sir William Henry Bragg Mishra and Koehler’s (2006) article on the idea of TPCK was so in-depth that I had dreams about it last week. I’m not kidding. The authors really, really dove…
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Politics and Education? Didn’t See That Coming
I’m starting to believe that doctoral work is not about what you know, but rather all about being surprised at how much you do not know. It’s humbling and exciting all at once, and more than a little overwhelming. This week, I wanted to dive further into the concept of using digital storytelling in education…
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Digital Storytelling: Feels Like Old Times
In earlier blogs, I have mentioned that before teaching I worked in media, using television and radio to tell stories for Public Media (PBS/NPR) viewers and listeners. So, Hung et al’s (2012) article caught my interest immediately. I find it fascinating that teachers now encourage students to create stories using multimedia as a way to…
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Thoughts on SRL (Part 2)
Based on part 1 of this week’s post, I decided to do a deeper dive into SRL, or Self-Regulated Learning. As I mentioned, this topic brought up memories of my time spent in A.C.E. schools where I thrived in a self-regulated education model that rewarded motivation and achievement. As a sidenote, concentrated efforts to find…
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Thinking About SRL (Part 1)
Azevedo et al (2010) set out to explore the concept of self-regulated learning when it comes to what they call “hypermedia environments” (p. 210). The authors define self-regulated learning (SRL) as “an active, constructive process whereby students set goals for their learning and then attempt to monitor, regulate, and control their cognition, motivation, and behavior,…
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Humans “Heart” U-Learning
“As the world around us becomes smaller, and communication and media become more global and more diffuse, the very nature of society and of who we are as human beings is quickly being defined by our ability to be both consumers and producers of knowledge…” –Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis, 2009 I consider myself a…
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The Tie That Binds: Putting It All Together
“Scientific study reflects the culture from which it arises, and entails values, often unspoken.” Kathryn H. Au and Taffy E. Raphael Au and Raphael are both senior advisors with schoolRISE, an organization that focuses of equity and research in literacy in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2021, they explained their mindset that “scientific study reflects the…
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Themes on a Variation of Relevance and Research
I have loved classical music for as long as I can remember. If you, too, are a ‘classics’ fan then you’ll recognize the wordplay in this week’s title. According to study.com, a ‘theme and variation’ in music refers to a main theme woven throughout a piece, all the while allowing the composer to sprinkle variations…
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The Learning Sciences: Then and Now
“The best practices discussed are built on the idea that students of all ages are not blank slates when they come to the classroom; instead, instructors can build on how minds look at the world based on what those minds have experienced in it so far.” Sawyer’s (2006) introduction to The Cambridge Handbook of the…
Now What? (Education and Technology in a Post COVID World) 