On Adolescent Creativity in Online Learning The final assignment for EDU800 was an “elevator pitch”—an exercise in developing the ability to clearly and succinctly communicate our current interests at any given time. Wow. It was hard—not the writing of it; the delivering of it. We were asked to create and post a two-minute video outliningContinue reading “The Big Question:”
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The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning
Image: Joy Reeves – The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. ANNOTATION: Borup, J., West R., Graham C. and Davies, R. (2014) The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning. Journal of Technology and Teacher Engagement 22(1), 107-129. Enrollments in K-12 online learning continue toContinue reading “The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning”
Higher Order Thinking in an Online World: Toward a Theory of Web-Mediated Knowledge Synthesis
ANNOTATION: Higher Order Thinking in an Online World: Toward a Theory of Web-Mediated Knowledge Synthesis Deschryver, M. (2014). Higher order thinking in an online world: Toward a theory of web-mediated knowledge synthesis. Teachers College Record, 116(12), 1-44. Access to the web is nearly ubiquitous at home, work, and school. Most people use the web for straightforward information-based tasks, butContinue reading “Higher Order Thinking in an Online World: Toward a Theory of Web-Mediated Knowledge Synthesis”
Creating technology-enhanced, learner-centered classrooms: K–12 teachers’ beliefs, perceptions, barriers, and support needs
PHOTO: iStock ANNOTATION: An, Y. J., & Reigeluth, C. (2011). Creating technology-enhanced, learner-centered classrooms: K–12 teachers’ beliefs, perceptions, barriers, and support needs. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 28(2), 54-62. Twenty-first century educational thinking moves beyond what Reigeluth (cited in paper, 1994, 1999b) referred to a factory-model “sorting” role, to achieve a higher-order learning role better designedContinue reading ” Creating technology-enhanced, learner-centered classrooms: K–12 teachers’ beliefs, perceptions, barriers, and support needs”
On the Nature of Creativity: Drawing from the PISA 2021 Creative Thinking Framework
CITATION: OECD. (2019). Framework for the Assessment of Creative Thinking in PISA 2021 (Third Draft) This is a long entry—much longer than I normally post—that in effect summarizes the PISA Creativity Framework, the theoretical foundation for an international test designed to assess creativity. This post begins with an overview of the assessment, then moves into a descriptionContinue reading “On the Nature of Creativity: Drawing from the PISA 2021 Creative Thinking Framework”
Fledgling Thoughts on AI from Four Assigned Readings
Photo Credit: Tierney – stock.adobe.com The following shares some thoughts on AI in education, based on four scholarly papers on the subject. The content below includes two big ideas that stood out per article, followed by one(ish) sentence on how it changed what I think of AI or how it might apply to my work. TruthContinue reading “Fledgling Thoughts on AI from Four Assigned Readings”
On the Development and Practice of AI Technology for Contemporary Popular Music Production
[Photo: Berklee Online.] ANNOTATION: Deruty, E., Grachten, M., Lattner, S., Nistal, J., and Aouameur, C. (2022). On the Development and Practice of AI Technology for Contemporary Popular Music Production. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 5(1), 35–49. DOI: https://doi. org/10.5334/tismir.100 The music industry has been abuzz with discussion on AI’s entry intoContinue reading “On the Development and Practice of AI Technology for Contemporary Popular Music Production”
Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study
ANNOTATION: Ertmer et al. (2007). Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 412–433. Ertmer et al’s study is a case study of 15 students to assess whether peer feedback improves the quality of online postings in an online course. Using numerical, rubric-driven grades,Continue reading “Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study”
The New Literacy Studies and the Resurgent Literacy Myth
ANNOTATION: Graff, H.J. (2022). The New Literacy Studies and the Resurgent Literacy Myth. In: Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96981-3_9 Graff’s chapter in Palgrave Macmillan’s 2022 release Searching for Literacy is a blazing takedown of New Literacy Studies, claiming that much of the research in thisContinue reading “The New Literacy Studies and the Resurgent Literacy Myth”
Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education
ANNOTATION: Evans, Paul (2015). Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education. Musicae Scientiae, 19(1), 65-83. doi: 10.1177/10298649/4568044. Though numerous motivational models have been previously applied to understand motivation in music learning, no theoretical framework has been universally accepted. In this article, Evans provides an argument for Self-Determination Theory as an ideal theoretical modelContinue reading “Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education”
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