Welcome back, friends and family. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #338. This week I helped publish the following: 3D Printed Iron Gates: Celebrating an African American Artist Through a Transdisciplinary Lesson – Together with several of my research colleagues and students, we explore 3D printing, transdisciplinary, and education. Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter…
This week I published the following: Create a Personal Webpage Using GitHub Pages & Jekyll – This week we had the last year of our professional development focused on infusing computational thinking into middle and high school classrooms. I taught a breakout session focused on building simple webpages using GitHub Pages. What will digital life…
Welcome back all! As a reminder, our chapter, Co-constructing Digital Futures, is available for #OpenReview as part of the @mitpress Works in Progress program. Katie Paciga, Elizabeth Stevens, Kristen Turner and I worked with our children to understand privacy, security, and algorithms. This is published through MIT Press using an open peer review process. You…
Holla back y’all. I just realized I’ve been writing this newsletter since 2015. Yikes. This week I also posted the following: Technology, Instruction, Learning in Teaching (TILT) Faculty Survey – This version of the TILT survey is designed for instructors in higher education and is designed to provide insight into the knowledge, skills, and dispositions…
Welcome back all. This week I posted the following: Where I’m From – Learning Event #3 – Consider your own culture & where you’ve been. How are these people, values, practices, & places a part of you? Narrative for Tenure & Promotion – Sharing the Narrative for my Tenure and Promotion materials in an attempt…
Butterfly Attacks Digitally Lit #265 – 10/24/2020 Welcome back to Digitally Literate and issue #265. Thanks for showing up this week. I appreciate you. This week I worked on the following: Innovation & Execution – When innovating, ideas without implementation mean nothing. Basically, talk is cheap. Back things up with action. How to cultivate self-awareness…
Escape Pods Digitally Lit #258 – 9/5/2020 Welcome back to Digitally Literate and issue #258. I took off the month of August from this newsletter and my social media feeds. I discuss more about this below. If you haven’t already, please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Feel…
Transformative Experiences Digitally Lit #254 – 7/11/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #254 of Digitally Literate. Each week in this newsletter, I synthesize the news of the week in education, technology, & literacy. If you haven’t already, please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Feel free to reach…
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…
Truth and Falsehoods Digitally Lit #235 – 2/29/2020** Hi all, welcome to issue #235 of Digitally Literate. I posted and shared the following this week: Co-Constructing Digital Futures – Several members of the Screentime Research Group have been conducting research on the challenges and opportunities that exist as children grow up in an world that…