What do I think? You Choose.

06.18.10 Posted in Media, Moxley, Social Media, education, elearning by Shelley

After reading The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age and “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age,” I was left feeling extremely optimistic and extremely frustrated. There were so many things to like about these reports, yet I found myself raging against many of the points the authors made. The [...]

A Matter of Perspective

06.02.10 Posted in Moxley, Reading, Social Media, collaboration, education by Shelley

In “Why Heather Can Write,” Henry Jenkins (2006) writes, “Gee’s focus is on the support system that emerges around the individual learner, while Pierre Levy’s focus is on the ways that each learner contribues to the larger collective intelligence; but both are describing parts of the same experience…” (p. 192). This seems to be the [...]

A Small Step for Kindle

06.02.10 Posted in Reading, education, kindle by Shelley

You know I can’t resist even the smallest piece of Kindle news since I adore my Kindle so much. So imagine my excitement this morning when I visited my local newspaper’s website and found this article (which, incidentally, has noting to do with the image I chose. This newsweek article is from a couple of [...]

Digital Illiteracy

03.24.10 Posted in Media, Social Media, education, literacy by Shelley

It is really unlike me to write two posts in one day, but I’ve been thinking about an embarrassing moment for a colleague and how it is actually a lesson about digital literacy. So, at the risk of embarrassing him or her further, I am going to share the story. Today on the ITForum listserv, [...]

Come ON Florida!

03.24.10 Posted in education by Shelley

Policy is not my area, but the load of crap being pushed through the Florida Senate today is enough for me to become a lobbyist (or, worse, a politician). On the heels of the NAEP announcement that Florida has made some significant gains in reading, the Florida senate just passed a bill that does a [...]

Experiencing Pinellas County Schools

01.27.10 Posted in Personal, education by Shelley

The County’s Non-Choice Choice My son will enter Kindergarten in the fall. And since the countywide choice problem is gone, I now have to choose between my neighborhood school and a number of fundamental and magnet offerings in the county. To make the choice easier, each school schedules discovery nights during the selection period (basically [...]

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