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Doc's Orders: Why I have never blogged before
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Saturday, July 11, 2009. Why I have never blogged before. As a professor of technology in a faculty of education as well as a person who considers themselves in-tune with current and emerging technology it surprises many people when I tell them that I have yet to participate in this social media/networking phenomena. People are shocked when they hear that me, of all people, has never registered for an account on: Blogger, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, . WHY NO LOVE FOR BLOGGING? July 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM.
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: June 2011
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Thursday, June 2, 2011. 2002) describes as a place, “where meanings, interpretations and narrative are co-constructed” (p. 100). My original motivation for doing this research is that Alberta teachers are being asked to become “ Architects of Innovative Learning Environments. 2011) refer to this a questing disposition. I set out to see if I could understand how teachers might make sense of this experience with innovation and I have s...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: November 2009
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Sunday, November 29, 2009. As a democratic society what is it we need of our schools in the 21st century? As a democratic society what is it we need of our schools in the 21st century and has our expectation of teachers shifted? The cost of technology is socially complex and expensive compared with the traditional tools of teaching. Is this cost bringing us closer to what we need? Is Larry Cuban correct when he reports that computers hav...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: December 2009
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Sunday, December 6, 2009. I am not a big fan of the word versus, I think perhaps I could have used the title constructionism born out of Instructionism but that does not sound so exciting. Regardless here is this weeks thinking:. Do you believe in universal truths? Basically how do we view the nature of knowledge? Roots of Constructionism explored with Cmap. This thinking was sparked by:. Papert, S. (1993). The children's machine...Bio: ...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: September 2010
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Thursday, September 9, 2010. Philosophy of Technology: Tool? I have just received my candidacy questions. The following is my first attempt to write about what my philosophy of technology is in response to one of them. Have you taken the time to write about yours yet? I hope this might get you thinking:. To begin, is technology in the classroom a tool? Is it an applied science? Is it a system of correlated means and ends? If it is a syst...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: March 2010
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. 8220;Why when we are asked as teachers to be innovative with technology we are not? 8220;What conditions need to be in place to support an innovative technology classroom? I could also approach this problem from a narrative inquiry tradition. Can I make myself (the narrator) the protagonist as an actor in this story? Then again the method that seems to be the most functional fit at this point is self-study. Craig...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: May 2010
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Sunday, May 30, 2010. The Very Brief Proposal. Empowering the Potential of Digital Citizenship in Teachers through Narrative. How do we live well together in a knowledge society? Some would say we should to do this by participating as digital citizens. What is the role and responsibility of schools in this society? Problem: Building a theory. I wish to invite teachers into such a conversation. What is digital citizenship? How important i...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: February 2010
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Monday, February 15, 2010. Does your work belong to you? A question for teachers: Does your work or your learning belong to you? While attending my teacher’s convention this week I was sitting with a question, “Does my work belong to me? In my current work environment at a recent professional development session the administration introduced us to something called, “ Fierce Conversations. At the end of the day I wish to take back my work...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: The E-learn Conference 2013
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Teaching and Learning with Technology. A pathway for understanding. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. The E-learn Conference 2013. The Architect of Learning. A Paper Presented at. Las Vegas, Nevada. The descriptive case study, Unfamiliar Technology and the Architect of Learning was designed to explore two main questions: 1) How do teachers make sense of new and emerging technology to enhance teaching and learning? The teachers gained feedback on student progress with a range of assessment tools that included ...
