I’m going to use my blog as my primary location for my participating in the #change11 MOOC. My intention is to write weekly, reflecting on whatever’s come up on (in? with?) the MOOC and however that ties in to what I’m thinking about that week. One of the reasons I want to use my blog is that I’ve been thinking for a long time about […]
So, I’m reading Literacy in the New Media Age by Gunther Kress and today we went to the beach. I’ve never taken theories to the beach, especially not theories of semiotics. But we shared a lovely 20 pages or so before I felt I needed some time to digest what I’d read. I’m not sure I’m at home in the arguments he’s building about new […]
Part 1 Going Deep I went cold turkey. Just, went onto Twitter & announced a week of being unplugged, didn’t blog or check email, logged into Facebook only once, to leave a message for my mother that I’d arrived safely in the land of the golden sun. (O.K., so I also Facebook-whined about the disappointing temperature, but after the pounding New York took this past […]
Know any teachers, principals, superintendents who have doubts about integrating digital tools into their classrooms, or even into their conceptions of learning and teaching? The yearly update of Scott McLeod and Karl Fischer’s video Did You Know 4.0 is up. It makes for an interesting conversation starter. Here’s a blurb from the YouTube post. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing […]