Cameras On… or Off? Engaging Students through Conversation, Writing-to-...
What does it mean to engage students in real time, video class sessions? Some people think that simply having “cameras on” is the answer to student engagement. However, engagement comes when students...
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Two Views of the Fall Semester, New Hopes for the Spring
This week and next, many students head back to college here in Michigan (though, for at least the first week, those classes will be virtual due to an order from the state department of health). So, as...
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CFP: Better Practices: Experts and Emerging Instructors Explore How to Better...
As online literacy instructors — including those that teach high school students preparing for college, as well as those at two- and four-year institutions — continue to extend and adapt their teaching...
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What Are Your Best Practices in Digital Literacy?
As we transition from “emergency remote teaching” and into a new era of hybrid learning that embraces technology more fully, I am working on a chapter for an edited collection that will share classroom...
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Announcing Mindful Teaching with Technology: Digital Diligence
Mindful Teaching with Technology Cover Image (Courtesy of Guilford Press) Set for release on October 29, 2021, my Guilford publication, Mindful Teaching with Technology: Digital Diligence in the...
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Fellowship with NCTE and TPS: New Perspectives on Primary Sources
As one of the project facilitators, I am pleased to share that the National Council of Teachers of English, in partnership with the Library of Congress, invites high school teachers to apply for a...
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“Digitally Writing New Histories” Unit Plans Released
MCSS TPS Unit Plan Home Page Image During the 2020-2021 school year, the Michigan Council for the Social Studies partnered with The Library of Congress on a Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest grant,...
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Pivoting the Conversation on AI in Writing
So, I am clearly coming to the conversation on AI a bit late. As ChatGPT has heralded the “death of the college essay” and “the end of high school English” — and as we see both combative and...
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With thanks to Trevor Aleo for the opportunity to think through some new ideas related to new literacies and teaching digital literacies, please enjoy this recent episode of “Conceptually Speaking.”...
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As the new semester begins, many faculty are again engaged in an ethical debate about the ways in which their students might use AI in their writing assignments, whether with explicit guidance and...
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