This week’s Denver Post article “Technology Rewrites Rules for Reading” explores how students’ reading habits have been influenced by the various online reading that they do. More and more often, teachers, curriculum developers, and school literacy programs must search for…
Author: Traci Gardner
In the News: Microsoft to offer free parental Web monitoring
Microsoft to offer free parental Web monitoring—would it be cool if what this says were what it really means? I’d so love for Microsoft to monitor my parents for me. One less thing for me to do. Really it’s just…
In the News: Cyber bullies haunt young online
BBC NEWS | Technology | Cyber bullies haunt young online—even in the UK, it seems, there is fear of online woes. The article ends with simple and obvious advice rather than any kind of complete exploration of how to empower…
In the News: Blogs taking a seat in, out of classrooms
Chicago Tribune | Blogs taking a seat in, out of classrooms—basic info on blogs in the classroom. The piece explores the educational value of the tools, but I wish it would more specifically talk about the many horrors of the…
In the News: Online Auteurs Hardly Need to Be Famous
Online Auteurs Hardly Need to Be Famous – New York Times—back in the day (a phrase which really only makes the writer look old), folks talked with wonderment of the great abilities of the Web to democratize publishing, given that…
In the News: Students Remember More Ads Than News
Students Remember More Ads Than News—Didn’t we know that kids paid attention to the ads back in the days of Schoolhouse Rock? The question that the article raises for me is what did the researchers ask them. Did they ask…
In the News: The FEMA Coloring Book: Funny, In a Stabbing Yourself in the Eyes Sort of Way
The FEMA Coloring Book: Funny, In a Stabbing Yourself in the Eyes Sort of Way – Wonkette—I don’t even know what to say about this, and I can’t look at it any longer to try to decide.
Cartoon Violence Thinks of the Children
Cartoon Violence Thinks of the Children—This Wonkette piece reminded me of my tech analysis of New Yorker cartoons. There’s not much in the PowerPoint, but I asked students the same sorts of questions as they looked at how children interact…
In the News: Grassroots Women Gaining a Voice
UNESCO | Education – Grassroots Women Gaining a Voice talks about ways that technology increases literacy . . . and not in the way we usually talk about it: “The UNESCO teams introduced workload-lightening technologies such as water pumps that…
Rhetoric: Machina Memorialis on Emerging Fields
Machina Memorialis: Vitanza Quote Found While Marking Time in the Archive—clipping this quotation because it may be useful for my C&W paper.