Welcome back all. Digitally Literate, issue #311. This week I helped post the following: Towards a Taxonomy of Transdisciplinarity – This paper is being presented at the upcoming LRA 2021 Conference. Our STEAM research team had pre-service teachers develop curriculum guided by transdisciplinary thinking as they created connections between math and music for a summer…
When One Affects Many Digitally Lit #236 – 3/7/2020** Hi all, welcome back. I hope you’re feeling successful and staying positive this week. I posted and shared the following this week: Computational Thinking in English Language Arts – This episode of the Infusing Computing Podcast is part of an NSF-funded research program delivering computing-infused, STEM-focused…
To The Renegades Digitally Lit #233 – 2/15/2020** Hi all, welcome to issue #233 of Digitally Literate. I posted and shared the following this week: Happy Safer Internet Day – I’m continuing to blog for the Screentime Research Group. This is primarily for parents and educators as they think about living & learning in an…
We’ve got this all wrong Digitally Lit #198 – 5/18/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to Digitally Literate. In this newsletter, I try to synthesize what happened this week so you can be digitally literate as well. I posted a couple of things this week: Journaling as a means to scaffold…
The privacy paradox Digitally Lit #197 – 5/11/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to Digitally Literate. In this newsletter, I try to synthesize what happened this week so you can be digitally literate as well. I posted a couple of things this week: Formative and Summative Assessments – An overview of…
From Weekend Edition on NPR. Annotations in source available here. “Robograders” are on the rise in high stakes testing, and other aspects of our classrooms. Keep in mind this is just an algorithm looking for patterns in student writing. An algorithm isn’t magic, it’s code (writing) written by people. “The idea is bananas, as far…