Here are some various educational handouts and blog posts elsewhere I’ve created over the past year, in case you find any of them useful: Handouts / Google Docs: Resources for Teaching Elementary School Kids Coding and Robotics – as part…
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Teaching and Technology Related Handouts & Posts from the Last Year
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200+ Educational Google+ Communities
In January I compiled a list of education related Google+ communities in this Google document. I then added another 30 communities in May, bringing the list to over 80 Google+ communities now, which is copied below and ordered by their…
New Books on Teaching, HTML5
I can’t really provide reviews for these books, I haven’t read most of them yet (they are just lying in my 10 year old amazon saved items queue), but I thought I’d share the list for future reference: Some new…
Recent Course & Workshop Resources: HTML5, Drupal, Distance Education
Here are some web sites for courses I’m currently teaching or recently taught: Distance Education Tools – http://detools.wikispaces.com/ This site now has dozens of links of various tools and technologies you can use with online and blended learning Multimedia Development with…
Review of Shapiro’s Embodied Cognition
I’m giving a talk at AECT in a couple of weeks on embodied cognition and education, as well as working on some related writings (and here are slides from my previous AERA talk on the subject). One related book I…
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New Books on Learning & Technology
Some recent and upcoming books that caught my eye (haven’t read them yet). Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities – They’ve made a copy of Chapter 10: Action Notebook available online. “it summarizes dozens of practical steps you can take…
The Effects of Technology on Students’ Learning in Math: A Meta-analysis
A colleague of mine, Dr. Qing Li of the University of Calgary, along with Dr. Xin Ma, just had an article published in the journal Educational Psychology Review titled A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Computer Technology on School Students’…
The Connection between Embodied Cognition and Learning: 3 Examples from Physics Education
When I started this blog 8 years ago, it was described as ‘eclectic’. Part of that is because, like most blogs, it is a slow form of stream of conscious, blogging about stuff that interests me. But also as a…
Embodied Cognition & Education Talks at AERA
I’ll be giving just one talk at AERA this year, and hosting a symposium session. Both are related to the applications of embodied cognition research and enactivism to education. Constructivism + Embodied Cognition = Enactivism: Theoretical and Practical Implications for…
Teaching IS Technology: A Little Philosophy of Technology & Media Theory
There often seems to be a tension between teachers and new technologies. It helps me to step back and think about technology more broadly. Almost 20 years ago I first ran across a book by Don Ihde, philosopher of technology,…
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