I wrote this column for our local newspaper, The Democrat Tribune. They do not have an online version of their paper, so I am posting it here. Thanks for reading! -Matt During these recent no school days due to inclement weather, it was hard to keep our own kids occupied, especially when it was…
I know about the negatives regarding social media, the detriments of being “always on”. We are distracted; we sometimes prioritize our online connections over our physical ones; we become accustomed to responding to our messages and other habit-building notifications. I don’t disagree with the sentiments…in theory. Yet social media and online interactions are where…
I teach only the truth – but that shouldn’t make you believe it. – Martin Fischer Why Your Customers’ Social Identities Matter by Guy Champniss, Hugh N. Wilson, and Emma K. Macdonald (Harvard Business Review, January/February 2015) Three business professors and researchers explain the importance of social identities. This concept can be defined as the…
No jail cell or straight jacket could hold him! He shucked off handcuffs as easily as gloves. – Sid Fleischman (Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini) Challenges and Successes: Online Communities of Practice by Ann Ware (Ed Tech: Focus on K-12, Winter 2015) The role of the school leader has always been an…
We were never born to read. – Maryanne Wolf Creating Digital Authors by Melody Zoch, Brooke Langston-DeMott, and Melissa Adams-Budde (Phi Delta Kappan, November 2014) Three literacy education professors see opportunities that technology can afford in today’s classrooms. They draw on others’ work in defining new literacies: New ways of reading and writing made available…