Hit the online message boards and found an answer to my questions last week about how language and conceptualization is different in D2L. It feels like culture shock to me. The things that are the most similar can ironically cause…
Texting in class
Everyone does it; right? Not as much in professional settings as you’d think. Sarcasm doesn’t work, despite the attempts of the sign to the right. Why do students think it’s acceptable? Sometimes it really looks bad. If you scroll down…
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
It’s important to clarify a distinction between LMS ( such as ANGEL)and Web 2.0 tools. LMS “use a top-down approach; blogs tend to go in the other direction. LMS offer a great deal of flexibility and the potential for creativity…
Technology expectations in the classroom
Had a couple students balk at using the Learning Management System – and even computers in general – in an English class. Teaching writing has always been about teaching technology, and inventions from the printing press to the typewriter and…
What can you learn thru Read/Write web; what skills are needed (research notes)
Luckin et al. (2009) asks how the read/write web interacts with learning and what sort of skills support the kind of learning that happens in this environment, and notes that researchers (Buckingham, 2007; Green and Hannon, 2007; Jenkins, 2006) have…
Are students technology experts?
While there is no shortage of people with the view that today’s young are fish, and social media and technology are the water through which they swim, that isn’t the complete truth. Pew Reports note that young people are prolific…