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Social Networking & Education @ AACTE

Feb 8, 2009

The Innovation & Technology Committee of the AACTE organized a symposium titled: Digital-Age Learners in a Socially Networked World at the Annual meeting at Chicago. As co-chair of the committee I had the privilege of introducing the session and the individual...

Academic novels

Mar 17, 2008

I have been reading Moo by Jane Smiley, off and on for a while now. It is a satire of academia set in a fictional Mid-western university called Moo U. It has been suggested that Moo U is a stand in for Iowa State, an university I know well since Smita went to school...

Chiayi, Chung Cheng & on to Kuosheng

May 15, 2008

I had been looking forward to the high speed rail journey though I had some concerns about navigating through the train station since most of the signs were in Chinese and Waiway (the graduate student who had come to pick me up from the airport) could not come with me...

TPACK newsletter #34, October 2017

Oct 10, 2017

The latest version of the TPACK newsletter (#34) is now available and can be found here (pdf). All previous issues are archived here. As always, thanks to Judi Harris for all the work that goes into this.

EPET in the Spotlight!

Mar 18, 2013

The current issue of TechTrends (Volume 57, Issue 3, March 2013) is a special spotlight issue, and the spotlight this time around is on the Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Programs at Michigan State University! This special spotlight issue was edited...

Analyzing political debate

Nov 16, 2008

Political debates are heavily analyzed - by pundits and laypeople alike. I had my own minor visual contribution to this discourse through this WordMap/Cloud of the third and final debate between McCain and Obama . Such wordmaps are fun to create and see but are not...

Today’s Internet cliché award goes to:

Nov 3, 2008

Sara Black, a professor of health studies at St. Joseph's University for the following insightful quote: "The Internet can be a great tool, like any tool, it can also be misused." Check it out on CNN.com in a story titled "#@*!!! Anonymous anger rampant on...

Walking away from Happy Valley

Nov 14, 2011

I have been haunted the past week or so with the scandal enveloping Penn State. Much as been written about it already - and I really have nothing fundamentally new to offer to this discussion. What I did want to share was a parallel that struck me recently about these...

From Surveillance to Support: Building Student Trust in the Era of AI

Jun 3, 2024

Note: This post originates from collaboration and discussions between Melissa, Punya, and Nicole. However, it is written from Nicole’s point of view as a current student, reflecting our efforts to explore student perspectives when considering the integration of AI in...