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Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI: Webinar
A week or so ago I was invited to an #AskTheExperts webinar on Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of…
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From Classroom to Reality: Celebrating Media Mentor AI
This past spring semester, I taught (with Nicole Oster and Lindsey McCaleb) a masters/doctoral seminar on Human Creativity × AI…
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Subversion as Literacy: Foreword in “Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms”
A little less than a year ago, my friends and colleagues, Marie Heath and Stephanie Smith Budhai reached out to…
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Brains Without Minds, Eyes Without Hands: Revisiting Visual Literacy in a GenAI World
Everyone seems to be clamoring for AI literacy these days—how to prompt effectively, how to spot AI-generated content, how to…
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On the Ethical Perils of Mass-Produced Books: A Concerned Scholar’s View
The prose below is from a manuscript that was recently discovered in the archives of the Indian National History Museum.…
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A New Definition of Literacy
Note: For some context on the title image (above) please see an addendum at the end of this post. This…
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AI Literacy: The Ethical Overreach?
A few weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek blog post about the need for “Pencil Literacy,” defined as “A Framework…
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Pencil Literacy: A framework
I have been thinking of pencils lately. Pencils in the context of AI. What if pencils were the latest technological…
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Why are we surprised? Hallucinations, bias and the need for teaching with and about genAI
By Punya Mishra, Melissa Warr & Nicole Oster Note: This is the first post in an experiment at shared blogging…
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Literacy as a Technology: A Conversation with Kyle Jensen about AI, Writing & More
Welcome back to our column series, exploring the nexus of technology, creativity, and education. We’ve spoken with experts like Chris…
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Unpacking McLuhan’s “The medium is the message” (1/3)
This is the first of a series of blog posts about how media influence our thinking. This, the first post,…
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International Literacy Day, new ambigram International Literacy Day, new ambigram
In celebration of International Literacy Day, here is a new ambigram design – it reads, “Literacy” one way and “Reading”…
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21st Century Competencies, what are they? New article 21st Century Competencies, what are they? New article
Back in June 2011 I was in Paris for EduSummIT: Building a Global Community of Policy-Makers, Educators, and Researchers to Move Education into…
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TPACK and new literacies TPACK and new literacies
Over 150 years ago Herbert Spencer wrote an essay titled What Knowledge is of Most Worth in which he bemoaned…
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New TPACK themed book on English Education New TPACK themed book on English Education
My friend Carl Young of NCState recently released an edited volume (co-editor, Sara Kajder a the University of Pittsburgh) titled Research on Technology…
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Constructing knowledge on the web: New dissertation Constructing knowledge on the web: New dissertation
I am pleased and proud to announce that Mike DeSchryver recently defended his dissertation, titled: Toward a Theory of Web-Mediated…
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Txting develops spelling skills, how gr8 Txting develops spelling skills, how gr8
Scott Graden is Superintendent of Saline Area Schools and a blogger. He recently posted about a study that indicated that texting…
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Subversion, literacy & TPACK, new article Subversion, literacy & TPACK, new article
Kristen Kereluik, Matt Koehler and I just published an article in The California Reader: A publication of the California Reading…
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On writing less badly On writing less badly
I just came across an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled, 10 tips on How to Write Less…
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New Literacies & TPACK New Literacies & TPACK
I recently (through the magic of Twitter) found out about an initiative New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute 2010. This institute…
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What is this thing called text? What is this thing called text?
Steven Johnson has a great essay on the future of text title: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book. I…
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Deconstructing TV news Deconstructing TV news
The video below has been getting a lot of attention on the blogs lately, and despite that it is pretty…
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On picturing words, tech-mix an old school idea On picturing words, tech-mix an old school idea
Students in my CEP 818 (Creativity in Teaching and Learning) have been using digital photography to explore a variety of…
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Technology & Literacy, bemoaning the youth of today 🙂 Technology & Literacy, bemoaning the youth of today 🙂
One often hears the criticism that students today don’t know how to write… the part of the blame is placed…
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Picturing poetry Picturing poetry
Nashworld pointed me towards PicLits a website that he describes as being “part visual literacy, part refrigerator poetry, part… fun.”…
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Reading online & off Reading online & off
Nice article in the NYTimes (Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?) about today’s generation and how much of their…
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The medium is the massage The medium is the massage
Nicholas Carr has an interesting post (titled Rewiring the mind) on the findings of a recent study into the information…
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Scrivener vs. Writer Scrivener vs. Writer
A NYTimes article on word-processing versus writing (or scrivenering??): An interface of one’s own. What stood out was this description…