New book chapter: Mobile Teaching and Learning in the Classroom and Online: Case Studies in K-12
Together with Michael Barbour, we have a new book chapter that is coming out soon on mobile teaching and learning. It was just accepted as final, so I’m glad to have this one complete. This is part of a handbook on mobile learning edited by Zane Berge and Lin Muilenburg to be published by Routledge. Our chapter is titled “Mobile [...]
Free iPad app from IBM: Minds of Modern Mathematics
As I’m gearing up for our STEM teacher professional development grant to start up this summer, I’ve begun to collect and curate a number of resources that I will be sharing with the 7th, 8th, and 9th grade teachers. One, I’d like to share with you today is called “Minds of Modern Mathematics” and was produced by IBM. From the [...]
Mobiles at Union University
Today, I am excited to visit Union University with my friend and colleague Dr. Anna Clifford. We will be exploring using mobile computing devices for teaching and learning. I have put together a PBWorks page on my professional development wiki that aggregates a number of resources and links, so definitely check it out. Here’s the QR code, too, to that [...]
#Free webinar on Education in the Age of Mobility #mlearning
AECT’s Teacher Education Division (TED) and the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) are co-hosting a webinar on Education in the Age of Mobility. Dr. Shari Metcalf, Dr. Amy Kamarainen, and Dr. Yu-Chang Hsu will present on using mobile apps within educational settings. Wednesday, April 18th from 5:00-6:00 PM EST. REGISTER AND LOGIN AT https://cc.readytalk.com/r/rvd1qbdxwifg Here’s abstracts of the presenters: Shari Metcalf [...]
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Over the next 10 days or so, my graduate course in elearning development will be working through a unit on rapid instructional design. Capitalizing on the advances in mobile learning, they will be using an ebook and Twitter. This piggybacks on a unit I conducted with one of my online graduate teacher education courses this past summer. Learning from past [...]
I have just received word from our librarians here on campus fantastic news. ERIC has announced that they have restored full-text access to articles from 2005 to 2013. This is great news! Here is the announcement below. ERIC Restores Online Access to Full Text from 2005-2013 ERIC has restored online access to more than 21,000 full-text PDFs with publication dates [...]
A few years ago, I wrote a book chapter with Janette Hill at The University of Georgia on the complexities of implementing student-centered pedagogies, like project-based learning and problem-based learning. This chapter “Weighing the Risks with the Rewards: Implementing Student-centered Pedagogy within High Stakes Testing” was published in Understanding Teacher Stress in an Age of Accountability edited by Richard Lambert [...]
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Photo Credit: Toni Blay via Compfight Over the past 5 or so years, a number of colleagues and myself have discussed the research around learning styles. We have lamented the continuing attention that has been given to learning styles, particularly in teacher education. This is of great interest to me. My dissertation research focused on the use of abilities and [...]
Photo Credit: MD. Hasibul Haque Sakib via Compfight I came across this blog post in my Zite feeds yesterday, and I thought that I should really share this for how timely it is to some of my students. Right now, my doctoral class in academic writing is in the process of writing drafts of their literature reviews. So, I thought [...]
From Dr. Philip Pavlik, Institute for Intelligent Systems and Department of Psychology. If you have a chance to go and hear about Betty’s Brain, I highly encourage it. This is a fantastic example of technology-supported/enhanced learning in an open-ended learning environment. Betty’s Brain: An open-ended learning environment that helps middle school students develop metacognitive strategies for learning science Dr. Gautam [...]
This is interesting: Facebook is planning to add hashtags as an option for updates. While this is heavily used by twitter as a keyword and categorization method around a topic or event, I’m interested to see what this might mean for Facebook. Social Media today reported that: The WSJ reported this last week Facebook is moving to allow users to [...]
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