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 […]
Exploration of Digital Tools: A Web-based Tool Evaluation
For this assignment, I had the opportunity to explore a wide variety of digital tools, choose one to create an assignment, and complete the assignment as if I was a student. I have zero prior experience working with apps related to education, and no schools that I work with use any either, so I was […]
Thoughts on “The Enduring Classroom” (Preface – Chapter 2)
This book is already attempting to cover a lot of ground! The book opens with a preface that outlines Larry Cuban’s personal motivation behind the book and acts as a roadmap for what the upcoming chapters intend to tackle. He seems to be unbiased in his end goal and offers some slight foreshadowing of the […]
Communicated Learning Environment
In one of the course assignments this week, I was supposed to develop a digital artifact that portrays a classroom culture I would hypothetically like to establish with my students. Within this, I am also supposed to include the role of technology within the instructional context of my classroom. For this assignment, I used Canva […]
Choosing “The Enduring Classroom”
Reading seminal texts in the space of educational technology is an important aspect for building a foundation of knowledge in the space as well as developing one’s own personal opinions about technology integration in schools. While there are many seminal texts to choose from, there is one that stuck out to me immediately: The Enduring […]