As we think about technology and digital practices in our lives and classrooms, it can often get confusing. We have many theories and practices that intersect and try to map out a landscape that is constantly changing. To try and make this a bit simpler, I think about a continuum of three stages that move…
The following materials have been developed for my keynote at the 2015 New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute at The Friday Institute at NCSU. My keynote for the session will focus on moving students (and educators) from consumers…to curators…to creators of online content. The presentation materials can be accessed (and commented on) by clicking here, or…
In a previous blog post, I shared my involvement in a collaborative research endeavor with Doug Belshaw and Laura Hilliger. Our collective aim revolves around delving into the realms of theory and practical applications to shape the landscape of media and information literacy for the future. In recent weeks, I’ve been engrossed in an immersive process of…
This week I’m presenting a session with some good friends at NCTE 2022 a session titled What We’ve Learned: Two Decades of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out. Though more learners have technology in their hands than ever before, we ask what has changed in the last twenty years. In this session, participants had…
Over the remainder of the Fall semester, I will complete another networked learning project. In a networked learning project, I will use the Internet, the connected learning community, and my own personal learning networks to teach myself something new. I will collect, curate, and synthesize this information into a final “presentation” of what I have learned.…
The Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center regularly conducts surveys of stakeholders to assess the likely future of digital life. The 2021 survey is focusing on insights about the evolution of digital spaces and whether or not there will be improvements in those spaces in the coming years when it comes to the overall good…
I’m honored to join my colleagues and friends, Drs. Elena Forzani and Troy Hicks as speakers at the 2021 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium. This year’s theme is Digital Literacy: Developing Critical Thinking. The past year has revealed the many ways in which digital literacy poses opportunities and challenges. Literacy educators must navigate the multiple ways…
Twitter is a communication tool that allows for open collaboration to aid in teaching, learning, and socializing online. Get Started To get started with Twitter, first, get an account. All you need is an email address and an idea for your Twitter handle (username). Choose something that relates to your interests, passion, superpower, or just…
For more than a decade, I’ve been teaching educators from Pre-K up through higher education how to be digitally literate educators. In earlier posts discussing how to be a digitally literate educator, and agile researcher, I boil this down to a three step process: Create and curate your digital identity – Write yourself into being.…
One of the challenges of social networks is that these platforms are meant to serve as the pipes that connect us with others digitally. Since many of us do not have one digital hub that we use as our online home, we use profiles on these networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, Mastodon) to assemble bits and…