I just became Digital Citizenship Training Certified through Common Sense Education. Common Sense Education helps parents and educators support students to help them thrive in a digital world. They offer a wide variety of resources. One type of resource is through professional development training courses where one can earn micro credentials like certificates and badges. […]
Month: November 2024
Even More Musings on Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Equity, and Access
Have you ever learned something new and, shortly after that, you see or hear about that same thing? Me too! The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion, is a phenomenon where something you recently learned seems to appear everywhere. This happened to me this week. After completing the last assignment, a few different […]
Steal Like a Teacher – S1 E2 – Le’Aunna Rhodes
Episode Intro Next up in this podcast series, I interview Le’Aunna (Le) Rhodes, Compliance Manager at Open Doors Academy in Cleveland, OH. Continuing the conversation in the digital equity space, we discuss the non-profit realm; regulatory requirements, compliance, and audits; the importance of supporting families; how schools received support during COVID; and more! Thank you […]
Musings on Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Equity, and Access
This week, we were provided a wide variety of readings and resources covering the full spectrum of topics and issues about assistive technology, universal design, equity, and access. This module has been one of my favorites of this course so far this semester. I have always been interested in accessibility from a general sense, not […]
Steal Like a Teacher – S1 E1 – Sara Vizina
Episode Intro Kicking off this podcast series, I recently interviewed Sara Vizina, a middle school and high school Spanish teacher in Cheboygan Public Schools in Cheboygan, MI. We cover a lot of ground in this 20 minute chat and discuss everything from rural northern Michigan schools, how COVID changed education, technology personnel to student ratio, […]
Thoughts on “The Enduring Classroom” (Chapters 5-6) – The End
The timing of reading the end of this book aligned with a recent conversation I had with a friend. They were telling me about a book club they had attended, and the book discussed was The School I Deserve: Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America by Jo Napolitano. Their brief summary […]
#USvsHate is more important now than ever
To be honest, I have not yet fully recovered from last week’s election results. Reading this article about hateful speech in schools today felt even more despairing. Everything the 2022 article says still tracks but is even more exacerbated and exists beyond schools and is fully entrenched in society. The article references 2018 and 2020 […]
Thoughts on “The Enduring Classroom” (Chapters 3-4)
“Schooling and teaching are complex processes deeply nested in one another and the society that provides it. Nested is a fair word to use in capturing the interrelatedness and steadiness in patterns of schooling. Each classroom is part of a school that, in turn, is part of a district, which is located in a state.” […]
Steal Like a Teacher
Introducing my new podcast, Steal Like a Teacher! One of the larger projects for this semester’s EDTE 650 course is to create a watershed podcast / interactive presentation focusing on an important issue within educational technology and teacher education. Inspired by the works of Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, I have titled this podcast […]