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In the News
A link to this article in the Daily News came through on multiple list serves this morning: “New York City Teaching Fellows call for overhaul of 12-year program as deadline for new batch of teachers nears.” I think Lisa Cunningham, … Continue reading
Posted in On Being a Grad Student, On Being a Teacher, Policy-Practice Gap
Tagged classroom, Daily News, NY Times, rookie teacher
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No Apples Here
This post draws from my first journal entry as a brand-new New York City Teaching Fellow about ten years ago. I’d spent plenty of time working with children as a teenager, and a year as a photography teacher at a … Continue reading
Digital Humanities in the Classroom
As I get my feet wet with this public-blogging thing (intentionally public, anyway–this isn’t the first time I’ve blogged publicly, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while trying to capture the attention of a specific audience and string … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Communication, Instructional Technology, On Being a Grad Student, Using Computers, Writing Process
Tagged assessment, blog, classroom, computer, CUNY DHI, digital, digital humanities, digital media in the classroom, K-12, NYCTF, policy-practice gap, rookie teacher, support, teacher
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From Journal to Blog
So much has been going on, it’s hard to figure out what to write about! I was back down at Occupy Wall Street this morning, and I am impressed that it’s still going strong. It makes me hopeful about what … Continue reading
Using Blogs as Data Collectors
When I started graduate school, web-based reference tools were only just being developed. At the time, I was using Endnote to keep track of my citations. That is, until I clumsily tripped over the cord attached to my iBook. This … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Communication, On Being a Grad Student, Using Computers
Tagged citations, classroom, computer, data collection, digital media in the classroom, endnote, external hard drive, google, K-12, Mac, occupy wall street, phlogging, policy-practice gap, references, teacher, wordpress, zotero
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“Hope and enthusiasm are soaring here. But not test scores.”
This past Sunday’s New York Times published the first of a series of articles about “the intersection of education, technology and business as schools embrace digital learning”(p. 16) with the title “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores.” I have to say, … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Communication, Instructional Technology, Policy-Practice Gap, Using Computers
Tagged classroom, digital, NY Times, pd, policy-practice gap, support, teacher
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Where Physical Ends and Digital Begins
How often do you still download a document, or go to the site of a periodical you used to get in the mail every week, and approach it as a concrete piece of the physical world? How has the switch … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Communication, Using Computers
Tagged apps, classroom, digital, K-12, national technology plan, physical world
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