“Social-psychological interventions complement—and do not replace—traditional educational reforms. They do not teach students academic content or skills, restructure schools, or improve teacher training. Instead, they allow students to take better advantage of learning opportunities that are present in schools and tap into existing recursive processes to generate long-lasting effects.” (Walton & Yeager, 2011, p. 293)
I was privileged to present at the Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning today on “Making it fit: Matching instructional technology with learning task”. As always, I consider good talks as those that barely get the ball rolling and create more cognitive dissonance than convergent solutions. I’m not sure if I accomplished that goal, …
The SITE Conference 2011 was a good, albeit long week in Nashville, TN. I recommend Burger Up if you’re in the area and have a craving for a good bison burger — and a big thanks to Kristen and Tyler for breaking Mete and me out of our hotel purgatory and taking us there. Anyway, …
I don’t usually post how-to stuff on this blog, but I figured some WordPress, Shadowbox JS, Vimeo, and html5-ipad-loving users might benefit from it. A big thanks to Matt for making such a great WordPress-flavored Shadowbox JS plugin.
I recently started using Instapaper on a recommendation from Scott McLeod via Twitter. In a nutshell, Instapaper allows you to save local copies of web pages for later viewing on multiple devices (e.g., iPad/iPhone, Kindle, etc), turn said pages into simpler text objects, and organize everything in a sharable, socially friendly structure. Now, if you’re …
I recently attended a talk by a very skilled, influential, and seasoned leader who, “in a dark night of the leader’s soul”, asked the question: Do I really know anything about leadership? His wasn’t a false humility, but genuine, albeit temporary, paralysis. Many of my doctoral cohorts and I seem to also be walking through …
Along with a few hundred million others, I have been glued to the World Cup as much as is possible for someone who does not have cable TV and is trying to write two large research papers. Perhaps you think fútbol is boring, wrought with poor Italian acting, archaic officiating practices, and little …
As you’re all well aware, obscene amounts of ink has been spilled liquid crystal has been moved around with regard to this gleaming piece of obsidian recently erupted from the depths of Mt. Cupertino. In fact, this isn’t the first time the iPad has graced the pages of Ideaplay, and I wonder if Kristen still …