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Writing
2026
- Mar 27, 2026 AI Literacy Beyond Tools: Helping Learners Think With (Not Forfeit Thinking To) AI
Notes from a March 2026 talk on helping learners use AI without surrendering judgment, agency, or responsibility.
- Feb 27, 2026 Thinking Out Loud: What Self-Hosting Is Teaching Me About Computational Thinking
What a self-hosting project taught me about computational thinking, risk, tradeoffs, and reasoning carefully through technical decisions.
- Jan 13, 2026 Finding the “Goldilocks Zone” for AI in Curriculum: Logistics, Not Logic
Why the hardest part of bringing AI into curriculum is not logic or pedagogy, but the logistics, shame, and practical constraints educators actually face.
- Jan 8, 2026 Ungrading 2.0: Labor, Agency, and the Research Archive
A follow-up on ungrading that argues removing grades is only the beginning; agency requires labor, structure, and support.
- Jan 7, 2026 From Ungrading to Infrastructure: What I Learned When I Stopped Grading
What I learned when ungrading stopped being a rejection of points and became a question of infrastructure, power, and student support.
2025
- Nov 15, 2025 The People Who Help Us See Clearly
A meditation on the everyday people who steady communities by helping others see clearly when things get hard.
- Jul 3, 2025 AI and the Human Question: What Are We Really Trying to Fix?
A question about what problem AI is really trying to solve.
- Jul 2, 2025 Beyond Language: Why Educators Have a Hidden AI Superpower
Why educators have a hidden advantage when working with AI.
- Jun 18, 2025 A Toolkit for the Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Classroom
A practical toolkit for bringing human judgment into AI-supported teaching.
- Jun 17, 2025 Building a Second Brain with Google Keep, Drive, and NotebookLM
How Google tools can support a second-brain workflow.
- Jun 12, 2025 The Pedagogy of the Prompt
How prompting works as a pedagogical conversation with AI.
- Jun 11, 2025 Designing Loops Worth Living In
How to design AI loops that keep human flourishing at the center.
- Jun 5, 2025 Reimagining AI in Education: Embracing the Violin of Cognitive Amplification
How AI can amplify human thinking in education.
- Jun 3, 2025 Framing the Dilemmas: AI and the Future of Education
The key dilemmas that shape an honest conversation about AI and education.
- Jun 2, 2025 Reimagining AI in Education: From Threat to Cognitive Amplifier
How educators are thinking about AI and the future of learning.
- May 5, 2025 Pioneering AI Policy in Education
How one school of education is shaping AI policy for teaching and learning.
- May 4, 2025 Exploring Student Perspectives on Generative AI: A New Set of Reflection Questions
How students think about using generative AI in coursework.
- Mar 28, 2025 Exploring the Integration of AI in Education: Skills, Knowledge, and Practices
How AI literacies fit into education and classroom practice.
- Jan 29, 2025 Why Participatory Action Research? Building a Methodology That Centers Teachers’ Voices
Why participatory action research centers teachers' voices.
- Jan 9, 2025 Why Blanket Bans on Tech in Schools Don’t Work: An Argument for Educating Responsible Usage
Why blanket bans on classroom tech often miss the real issue.
2024
- Dec 13, 2024 Why I’m Repurposing My Newsletter and Notes
Why I’m turning newsletters and notes into a digital garden.
- Aug 13, 2024 Bridging Social-Emotional Learning and AI: Fostering Empathy in the Digital Age
How AI can support SEL and empathy in digital classrooms.
- Aug 13, 2024 What is AI - A Simple Guide for Students
A student-friendly introduction to what AI is and how it works.
- Aug 12, 2024 Understanding the Power of Social and Emotional Learning in Education
Why social and emotional learning matters as much as academics.
- Jun 9, 2024 Experiential Learning and AI - Redefining Education Through Immersive Experiences
How experiential learning and AI could reshape education.
- May 13, 2024 The Role of Education and Research in Confronting Harmful Discourses
Why educators and researchers should help confront harmful discourses.
- Apr 20, 2024 Navigating New Realms - Generative AI and Literacy Education
How generative AI is reshaping literacy education and classroom practice.
- Apr 9, 2024 Redefining Education – Equipping Students for a Complex Future
Why education needs to adapt to a more complex, rapidly changing world.
2023
- Dec 7, 2023 Reckoning with Slavery’s Legacy Across America
A short reflection on Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed.
- Oct 16, 2023 Fostering Creativity and Innovation: Defining the Learning Competencies for Ohio’s Graduates
How creativity and innovation can be taught with technology.
- Oct 16, 2023 Innovating for the Future: Rethinking Technology Skills Instruction for Students
Why schooling should prepare students for an uncertain future.
- Oct 14, 2023 Seeking Feedback: Questions to Critically Examine Our Technology Use
Questions for thinking critically about your own technology use.
- Oct 12, 2023 The Dangers of Unchecked Algorithms – A Review of Weapons of Math Destruction
A brief note on the harms Cathy O'Neil identifies in algorithms.
- Oct 10, 2023 The Allure and Risks of New Edtech
The promise and risks of educational technology in today's classrooms.
- Oct 6, 2023 The Power of Empathy in an Age of Division
Why empathy matters in a divided, trauma-shaped world.
- Sep 30, 2023 Unpacking Economic Inequality, Market-Driven Education, and Privatization: Implications for Ethical Media Consumption
How media literacy connects to economic inequality and market-driven education.
- Sep 24, 2023 Navigating the Impact of Capitalism on Education and Technology: A Lexicon for Thoughtful Discourse
How capitalism shapes what we build, buy, and believe about edtech.
- Sep 14, 2023 Integrating AI in K-12 Education: Navigating Ongoing Debate
Why K-12 AI adoption needs balance, ethics, and human judgment.
- Aug 18, 2023 Education’s Essential Role in the AI Revolution
Why education has a central role in the AI revolution.
- Jul 6, 2023 The Future of Education in the Age of AI
How AI is changing education, teaching, and learning.
- Apr 19, 2023 The Power and Perils of Generative AI in Education: What You Need to Know
What educators should know about the promise and risks of generative AI.
- Apr 14, 2023 How Will AI Impact the Job of Educators?
How AI is changing the work teachers do and what that means for education.
- Mar 31, 2023 What Is Your WHY?
Why education can be a meaningful path for positive change.
- Mar 27, 2023 Rethinking Academic Rigor in the Higher Education Classroom
How to think about academic rigor as a condition for learning.
- Mar 3, 2023 Introducing Pre-Service Teachers to Virtual AI Assistants
How to introduce future teachers to virtual AI assistants.
- Feb 24, 2023 Towards Transformative Socioemotional Learning
How digital literacy, identity, and SEL can support post-truth classrooms.
- Feb 23, 2023 Privilege and the Future of AI in the Classroom
How privilege shapes the future of AI in classroom settings.
- Jan 21, 2023 Digital Wildfires: Tending to Social Media in the Classroom
How to tend to social media and critical media literacy in class.
2022
- Dec 28, 2022 Transdisciplinarity as a Gateway to Critical Literacy
How wicked problems can open critical literacy across disciplines.
- Dec 19, 2022 Blending Practices, Skills, and Content in Teaching and Learning
How teaching can blend practices, skills, and content across disciplines.
- Dec 17, 2022 Wicked Problems
What wicked problems are and why they resist simple solutions.
- Nov 18, 2022 Considering the Post-COVID Classroom
What the post-COVID classroom changed and what still needs attention.
- Apr 21, 2022 Towards a New Normal: Motivation & engagement in digital spaces
What a new normal might mean for teaching after the pandemic.
- Jan 22, 2022 Assessing My First Attempt at Ungrading
What I learned after my first semester of ungrading.
- Jan 21, 2022 Mind the Gap
A reminder to close the gap between values and behavior.
- Jan 6, 2022 Becoming a Student Privacy Expert
How a student privacy program can deepen privacy expertise.
2021
- Dec 5, 2021 Ctrl-Alt-Del: Games, Society, Intersectionality, & Toxic Technocultures
A course centered on identity, race, equity, and inclusion in gaming culture.
- Oct 30, 2021 Ungrading: Towards a Culture of Vibrant & Equitable Intellectual Discovery
How ungrading can support more equitable intellectual discovery.
- Oct 15, 2021 From Crackpipes to Criteria to Critical Pedagogy
How ungrading feedback pushed me toward more critical pedagogy.
- Sep 30, 2021 Why I’m Exploring Ungrading
Why I started exploring ungrading in my courses.
- Aug 24, 2021 Getting Started With Ungrading
A starting point for rethinking assessment through ungrading.
- May 21, 2021 Developing An Attitude of Gratitude
How gratitude can support well-being and empathy.
- May 20, 2021 Risky Business
Why the pandemic exposed how much schools support communities.
- May 12, 2021 Computational Thinking for the Educator & Researcher
How educator-researchers can think with computational thinking.
- Apr 30, 2021 We Shape Our Tools and Then Our Tools Shape Us
How behaviorism still shapes classroom tools and student behavior.
- Apr 1, 2021 The “How” of Teaching Will Forever Change…We Now Need to Change the “Why”
Why 'back to normal' may not be the right goal after COVID.
- Mar 12, 2021 Guides In The Monster Factory
Lessons from Vinay Gupta's 'Monster Factory' interview.
- Mar 3, 2021 Technology, Instruction, Learning in Teaching (TILT) Student Survey
Why the TILT survey matters for student experiences with instructional tech.
- Mar 1, 2021 Technology, Instruction, Learning in Teaching (TILT) Faculty Survey
Why the TILT survey matters for faculty use of instructional tech.
- Feb 26, 2021 Bots, Disruptors, and Frictionless Interactions
How bots, friction, and human touch shape the user experience.
- Feb 25, 2021 Development & Validation of the TILT Survey
How the TILT survey was developed and validated.
- Feb 24, 2021 The Future Includes Human Teachers
Why human teachers still matter in an AI-shaped future.
- Feb 19, 2021 Documenting Instructional use of Technology in Higher Education
How educators can document and study instructional technology use.
- Feb 16, 2021 Seven Steps to Chunking Content
How chunking helps people remember and process information.
- Feb 6, 2021 Narrative for Tenure & Promotion
Selected materials from my tenure and promotion packet.
- Jan 21, 2021 Using Twitter for Teaching, Learning, and Socializing
How Twitter can support teaching, learning, and social connection.
- Jan 20, 2021 Teaching in the Time of COVID
How teaching changed during COVID and what that revealed.
- Jan 15, 2021 Accessible and Approachable
How scholars can make their work more accessible and approachable.
- Jan 12, 2021 Fit Versus Fit
Why credentials help, but values and lived fit matter too.
- Jan 6, 2021 Residue of Learning
Who owns course content after class ends, and what learning residue remains?
2020
- Nov 21, 2020 From The Block Up
How young people are building change from the ground up.
- Nov 5, 2020 Engaging With Activist Texts in Learning Environments
How activist texts can support learning and social change.
- Oct 30, 2020 What’s Next?
What comes next after receiving the Divergent Award during COVID.
- Oct 21, 2020 Look For The Good Apples
What strong groups do differently, and how to build them.
- Oct 19, 2020 Computational Thinking
How computational thinking helps people solve problems more systematically.
- Oct 7, 2020 Come Badge With Me
Why digital badges can recognize learning across formal and informal contexts.
- Oct 2, 2020 Control Your Controllables: Preparing for the Post-COVID Classroom
How to focus on what you can control in a post-COVID classroom.
- Sep 28, 2020 Become a Digitally Literate Educator
In 2016, I joined the One Side Project Challenge. The project brought together a number of creators from around the globe, created a private space for idea…
- Sep 14, 2020 Using Graphic Novels in Your Classroom
How graphic novels can support adolescent literacy and classroom discussion.
- Sep 11, 2020 Humans Have Bodies
Why embodied, offline life still matters in a digital age.
- Mar 14, 2020 Teaching When Things Go Sideways
How to keep teaching when everything goes sideways.
2019
- May 11, 2019 Formative & Summative Assessments
How formative and summative assessments support learning.
- Mar 13, 2019 Storytelling
Why storytelling still matters for identity and meaning-making.
2018
- Dec 13, 2018 Social Scholarship: Educators in digital, social spaces
How social scholarship prepares students for networked civic life.
- Nov 21, 2018 Digital Literacies and the Skinner Box
How behaviorism still shapes digital literacy and classroom technology.
- Nov 1, 2018 How to respond to trolling behaviors
How to respond when trolling shows up online.
- Oct 5, 2018 Screentime guidelines for children & adolescents
How screentime looks different for children and adolescents.
- Aug 23, 2018 Assistive Technology
How assistive technology is adopted and supported in schools.
- Jul 25, 2018 Encountering harmful discourses in the classroom
How educators can respond when hate and harmful discourse enter class.
- May 17, 2018 What is “Critical Pedagogy”?
How critical pedagogy differs from critical literacy and why it matters.
- Apr 11, 2018 What is “empowerment” in education?
A reflection on why empowerment keeps showing up in my research and teaching.
- Mar 17, 2018 Rating the relative hotness of digital literacy
A playful look at the heat and urgency of digital literacy.
- Feb 16, 2018 Embedding STEAM into K-8 classrooms
How STEAM can help younger learners connect school and life.
- Feb 13, 2018 Creating a strategic plan for your life
Why a strategic plan should shape more than just the next task.
2017
- Dec 12, 2017 How to debate in real life
How to handle real-life debate with more care and insight.
- Nov 24, 2017 Wisdom is Tolerance of Cognitive Dissonance
How cognitive dissonance shapes judgment, wisdom, and learning.
- Nov 9, 2017 Understanding key differences between divergent & convergent thinking
How divergent and convergent thinking work together in learning.
- Oct 12, 2017 Using Constraints to Build Creative Confidence & Divergent Thinking
How constraints can build creative confidence and divergent thinking.
- Jun 28, 2017 What To Do With Your Kids During the Summer: Read, Write, Play, & Hack
How families can think about learning and enrichment over the summer.
- May 24, 2017 Stop Motion Movie Creation in Early Childhood Education
How stop-motion projects can support early childhood learning.
2016
- Nov 1, 2016 A grant proposal for the ELATED (English Language Arts & Technology in Education) Project
Submitted materials for the Project Elated grant proposal.
- Oct 4, 2016 Four steps to conducting action research in the classroom
How action research helps teachers solve classroom problems.
- Jul 6, 2016 Doug Belshaw Brings Blockchain Thinking to the Badge Summit
Doug Belshaw's Badge Summit keynote through a blockchain lens.
- Apr 14, 2016 Bots and the Future of Education
An early look at conversational bots in education, and why new interfaces always demand new literacies, habits, and forms of judgment.
- Apr 7, 2016 Digital portfolios
What digital portfolios are and why they matter for learning and identity.
- Mar 22, 2016 Blockchain and Open Badges in Higher Education & Research
How blockchain might affect open badges in higher education.
- Mar 18, 2016 What is Blockchain?
A plain-language introduction to blockchain and its possible uses in education.
- Mar 17, 2016 Engineering education, design, STEM, & literacy
What an engineering education interview says about STEM, design, and literacy.
- Feb 25, 2016 Cognitive Authority, Digital Badges, and the Oracle of the Blockchain
How digital badges raise questions of value, credibility, and trust.
- Feb 17, 2016 Digital Portfolios + Open Badges + Blockchain = Personal Learning Ledger
How digital portfolios, badges, and blockchain might connect.
- Jan 24, 2016 How to teach and connect in online, networked learning spaces
What educators are really learning in open online spaces: how to make, share, connect, and participate with confidence in networked publics.
- Jan 19, 2016 Implementing Transmedia Storytelling
How transmedia storytelling helps educators connect learning across disciplines and media.
- Jan 6, 2016 Helping Educators Become Digitally Literate
How to help educators become more digitally literate.
2015
- Nov 24, 2015 Moving Toward Transparency in Higher Education
Why transparency matters in higher education and where the system still hides information.
- Nov 23, 2015 Allow it to be YouRTube: Planning, recording, & sharing video content online
How students learn and share through online video.
- Sep 6, 2015 Using Vialogues to Scaffold Student Use of Video and Dialogue in the Classroom
How Vialogues can support video-based classroom discussion.
- Jul 15, 2015 Play With Digital Media, Stop-Motion Animation, & Vine to Earn the #VineOff Badge
Why stop-motion and Vine are useful ways to play with digital media.
- Jul 3, 2015 Deconstruct My Digital Identity Through a Glitch Remix Video – #CLMOOC Make Cycle 1
How a glitch remix helped me deconstruct my digital identity.
- Apr 24, 2015 Hybrid & Blended Learning: Modifying pedagogy across time, place, path, & pace
How hybrid and blended learning change pedagogy across time and place.
- Mar 30, 2015 Zainab Oni
An overview of digital badges and their uses in teaching and learning.
- Mar 11, 2015 Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learners In and Out of School Contexts
An overview of digital badges as evidence, assessment, and motivation.
- Mar 10, 2015 Digital Badges Overview
An overview of digital badges in teaching and learning.
- Feb 3, 2015 Learning Pathways, Badges, and Models in the Web Literacy Map Development
An overview of web literacy map pathways, badges, and privacy work.
- Feb 2, 2015 Digital Literacy Practices for Working With English Learners (ELs)
How digital literacy practices can support English learners.
- Jan 21, 2015 Multicultural Education and Multiliteracies: Exploration & Exposure of Literacy Practices with Preservice Teachers
How hybrid learning and Google+ discussion shaped a multicultural literacy study.
2014
- Nov 12, 2014 Letters in Support of the UNH Education Department
A collection of letters supporting the UNH Education Department.
- Oct 4, 2014 Continued Exploration and Development of Digital Badges
TL;DR version: An update in my continued exploration and development of a digital badging system. At this point
- Sep 12, 2014 Come join us for the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) MOOC
An invitation to join the Online Research and Media Skills MOOC.
- May 25, 2014 Course Sequence & Syllabi for the Instructional Technology & Digital Media Literacy Program
An overview of the IT&DML program sequence for educators.
- May 12, 2014 Engaging Learners in Inclusive, Participative, & Connected Instruction
How inclusive, participative, connected instruction can use technology well.
- Apr 21, 2014 Second Annual Print to Pixel Unconference – May 3rd, 2014 #print2pixel
Come join us for the second annual Print to Pixel Unconference.
- Feb 20, 2014 LRA: Research to Practice 004 – Gender as a Lens
Episode 004 of the LRA: Research to Practice Show was held on Monday January 17th from 7:008:00 pm.
- Feb 3, 2014 Looking at Student Work to Identify Deeper Learning
How to spot deeper learning by looking closely at student work.
- Jan 10, 2014 LRA: Research to Practice Episode 003 – Writing and Multimodality
Episode 003 of the LRA: Research to Practice Show will be held on Monday January 13th from 2:003:00 pm.
2013
- Nov 12, 2013 TechTalk 002 – Twitter, ‘Twitteracy’, and Connected Educators
A TechTalk on Twitter, twitteracy, and connected educators.
- Nov 5, 2013 Blended or Hybrid Learning Environments
What makes a strong blended or hybrid learning environment.
- Sep 18, 2013 Thinking and Talking About Open Badging Initiatives…and the Failure Badge
What an open badge initiative can learn from failure.
- Aug 30, 2013 Why in the World Would You Build an Open Educational MOOC?
Why build an open educational MOOC in the first place?
- Aug 29, 2013 Value, Cognitive Authority, and Digital Badges
How cognitive authority shapes decisions about digital badges.
- Aug 11, 2013 Day Five at the MA New Lit Institute – Digital Texts and Tools are a toybox, but what if we want a sandbox?
Notes from the final day at the MA New Literacies Institute.
- Aug 7, 2013 Day Three at the MA New Lit Institute – Interestingness and Computational Culture
Notes from day three at the MA New Literacies Institute.
- Aug 6, 2013 Day Two at the MA New Lit Institute – Teachers Like to (Need to) Play
Notes from day two at the MA New Literacies Institute.
- Aug 2, 2013 Considerations on Hosting an Open Badging Initiative
Key lessons from hosting an open badging initiative.
- Jul 31, 2013 Challenges in Launching and Hosting an Open, Digital Badge Initiative
Lessons learned while launching and hosting an open digital badge initiative.
- Jul 17, 2013 Overview of Online Research & Media Skills Model, MOOC, and Badges
An overview of the ORMS MOOC and its badge system.
- Jul 8, 2013 Make With Me – Digital Badges
What digital badges can offer learners in a connected learning context.
- Jul 2, 2013 Design Evolution of the Graphics in an Open Badge Initiative
How the graphics for our open badge initiative evolved over time.
- Jun 14, 2013 Preparing to “Launch” Our Open Badging System
What goes into preparing to launch an open badging system.
- Jun 5, 2013 Open Badges Initiatives and Teacher Preparation Programs
How open badges connect to teacher preparation programs.
- Jun 4, 2013 Reflections on Revisions Needed for an Open Educational Resource
What needs revision after launching an open educational resource.
- May 28, 2013 Notes as We Frame an Open Badge Initiative for Teachers Using Technology
Notes on framing an open badge initiative for teachers.
- May 23, 2013 Embedding Technology Instruction in Common Core State Standards – A “MOOC”
How the ORMS class embeds new literacies into the CCSS.
- May 19, 2013 Working Individually & Collaboratively While Constructing Online Content #teachtheweb
How to balance solo and collaborative work while making online content.
- May 16, 2013 Towards a System of Open Badges for Teachers & Technology Use
How open badges can support teachers trying to use technology.
- Apr 15, 2013 Preparing Teachers & Students for Web Literacies
How Mozilla's web literacies work can help teachers and students learn the web.
- Mar 23, 2013 Surviving a Campus Shooter
Why campus safety training matters for faculty and staff.
- Feb 16, 2013 On Digital Learning Day…Please Also Celebrate Analog Learning
Why digital learning should still leave room for analog learning.
- Jan 31, 2013 Teaching Online and the Time of Screencasts
Why screencasts work well for online teaching and learning.
2012
- Dec 12, 2012 Exploring Growth in Teacher Dispositions through the use of Visual Analogies
How visual analogies can help explain teacher growth.
- Nov 8, 2012 Negotiating The Intersection of Literacy and Technology
How literacy and technology overlap in classroom practice.
- Oct 17, 2012 Construction and/or Creation of Online Content
How online content construction expands beyond online reading comprehension.
- Aug 15, 2012 When did “HACK” become a bad word?
Why 'hack' has become a bad word in some professional spaces.
- Aug 11, 2012 Student Responsibilities and Educational Technologies
What students and teachers owe each other when using educational technology.
- Aug 6, 2012 Teacher Responsibilities & Educational Technologies
A reflection on teacher responsibility when using educational technologies.
- Jul 28, 2012 Preparing for the MA NLI 2012
We are quickly approaching the week of festivities for the Massachusetts New Literacies Institute 2012.
- May 3, 2012 Online Research and Media Skills…and Elementary School
How elementary students can build research and media literacy skills.
- Apr 11, 2012 Open Badges in Education
A look at how open badges fit into education.
2010
- Nov 24, 2010 The Digital Coursepack
How a digital coursepack can support classroom learning.
2009
- Nov 13, 2009 Philosophy and Pedagogy Statement Task for My Comprehensive Exams
My task for the Statement of Philosophy and Pedagogy portion of the Comprehensive Exams is included below. I have embedded my response at the bottom.
- Nov 13, 2009 Syllabus Response Task for my Comprehensive Exams
This is the task I received for one part of my Comprehensive Exams. Below I have embedded my response to this task.
Book notes
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- 2025 The Disengaged Teen
Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop
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- 2024 The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
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- 2021 Ratchetdemic
Christopher Emdin
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- 2021 Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis R. Givens
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- 2020 The Civically Engaged Classroom
Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, Marc Todd
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- 2019 Cultivating Genius
Gholdy Muhammad
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- 2019 The Self-Driven Child
William Stixrud, Ned Johnson
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- 2018 We Got This
Cornelius Minor
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- 2017 Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
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- 2016 Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil
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- 2012 Democracy and Education
John Dewey
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- 2011 A New Culture of Learning
Douglas Thomas, John Seely Brown
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- 2009 Why Don't Students Like School?
Daniel T. Willingham
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- 2009 Shop Class as Soulcraft
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Publications
2026
- 2026 Consume, Curate, Create: Pre-Service Educators Developing a Digital Identity
Report · O’Byrne, W Ian; Hunter-Doniger, Tracey. (2026). Consume, Curate, Create: Pre-Service Educators Developing a Digital Identity.
- 2026 跨界经纬| Transmedia Storytelling and Literacy Instruction
Report · SLOTA, STEPHEN T; YOUNG, MICHAEL F; O’BYRNE, WIAN; BALLESTRINI, KEVIN. (2026). 跨界经纬| Transmedia Storytelling and Literacy Instruction.
2025
- 2025 Moving Through the Messy Middle: Longitudinal Case Studies of Teachers' Computational Thinking Infusion
Journal article · Jocius, Robin; Joshi, Deepti; Blanton, Melanie; Albert, Jennifer; O'Byrne, W Ian. (2025). Moving Through the Messy Middle: Longitudinal Case Studies of Teachers' Computational Thinking Infusion. Technology, Knowledge and Learning.
- 2025 Middle and High School Teachers’ Perceived Expertise and Needs in Disciplinary Literacy
Journal article · Savitz, Rachelle S; Morrison, Jennifer D; Brown, Christy; Kane, Britnie D; Aldrich, Charlene; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2025). Middle and High School Teachers’ Perceived Expertise and Needs in Disciplinary Literacy. AERA Open.
2024
- 2024 Secondary Teachers’ Adolescent Literacy Efficacy and Professional Learning Considerations
Journal article · Savitz, Rachelle S; Morrison, Jennifer D; Brown, Christy; Aldrich, Charlene; Kane, Britnie D; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2024). Secondary Teachers’ Adolescent Literacy Efficacy and Professional Learning Considerations. Reading Research Quarterly.
- 2024 Finding Exponential Hope in Courageous Communities
Journal article · Crandall, Bryan Ripley; Dail, Jennifer; Goering, Christian Z; Mora, Raúl Alberto; O’Byrne, W Ian; Price-Dennis, Detra; Witte, Shelbie. (2024). Finding Exponential Hope in Courageous Communities. Voices from the Middle.
- 2024 Computational thinking infusion as transformative teaching: investigating content area teacher perspectives and practices
Journal article · Jocius, Robin; Albert, Jennifer; O’Byrne, W Ian; Joshi, Deepti; Robinson, Richard; Blanton, Melanie. (2024). Computational thinking infusion as transformative teaching: investigating content area teacher perspectives and practices. Computer Science Education.
2023
- 2023 Content Area Teachers’ Approaches to Computational Thinking Infusion
Conference paper · Jocius, Robin; Albert, Jennifer; Blanton, Melanie; Joshi, Deepti; O'Byrne, Ian. (2023). Content Area Teachers’ Approaches to Computational Thinking Infusion. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference.
- 2023 Creating sustainable computational thinking infusion: An analysis of teacher-led practitioner inquiry projects
Journal article · Jocius, Robin; Albert, Jennifer; Joshi, Deepti; Blanton, Melanie; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2023). Creating sustainable computational thinking infusion: An analysis of teacher-led practitioner inquiry projects. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education.
- 2023 Artificial intelligence in English education: Challenges and opportunities for teachers and teacher educators
Journal article · Nash, Brady L; Hicks, Troy; Garcia, Merideth; Fassbender, William; Alvermann, Donna; Boutelier, Stefani; McBride, Cherise; McGrail, Ewa; Moran, Clarice; O'Byrne, Ian. (2023). Artificial intelligence in English education: Challenges and opportunities for teachers and teacher educators. English Education.
2022
- 2022 3D printed iron gates: Celebrating an African American artist through a transdisciplinary lesson
Journal article · Hunter-Doniger, Tracey; Radakovic, Nenad; O’Byrne, William Ian; Adams, Britnee; Gourdie, Emma; Heckman, Christian; Smith, Dillan. (2022). 3D printed iron gates: Celebrating an African American artist through a transdisciplinary lesson. Art Education.
- 2022 Building a virtual community of practice: Teacher learning for computational thinking infusion
Journal article · Jocius, Robin; O'Byrne, W Ian; Albert, Jennifer; Joshi, Deepti; Blanton, Melanie; Robinson, Richard; Andrews, Ashley; Barnes, Tiffany; Catete, Veronica. (2022). Building a virtual community of practice: Teacher learning for computational thinking infusion. TechTrends.
- 2022 Toward transdisciplinarity: Constructing meaning where disciplines intersect, combine, and shift
Journal article · Radakovic, Nenad; O'Byrne, W Ian; Negreiros, Melissa; Hunter-Doniger, Tracey; Pears, Emily; Littlejohn, Cymone. (2022). Toward transdisciplinarity: Constructing meaning where disciplines intersect, combine, and shift. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice.
2021
- 2021 Today Is the Tomorrow We Should Have Prepared for Yesterday: Rebuilding Our Classrooms to Facilitate Student-Centered, Teacher-Sustaining, Tech-Supported Education
Journal article · Garcia, Merideth; Marlatt, Rick; McDermott, Maureen; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2021). Today Is the Tomorrow We Should Have Prepared for Yesterday: Rebuilding Our Classrooms to Facilitate Student-Centered, Teacher-Sustaining, Tech-Supported Education. Voices from the Middle.
- 2021 Infusing computational thinking into STEM teaching: From professional development to classroom practice
Journal article · Jocius, Robin; O’Byrne, W Ian; Albert, Jennifer; Joshi, Deepti; Robinson, Richard; Andrews, Ashley. (2021). Infusing computational thinking into STEM teaching: From professional development to classroom practice. Educational Technology & Society.
- 2021 Leveraging virtual professional development to build computational thinking literacies in English language arts classrooms
Journal article · Jocius, Robin; O'Byrne, Ian; Blanton, Melanie; Albert, Jennifer; Joshi, Deepti; Robinson, Richard; Andrews, Ashley. (2021). Leveraging virtual professional development to build computational thinking literacies in English language arts classrooms. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education.
- 2021 The virtual pivot: Transitioning computational thinking PD for middle and high school content area teachers
Conference paper · Jocius, Robin; Joshi, Deepti; Albert, Jennifer; Barnes, Tiffany; Robinson, Richard; Cateté, Veronica; Dong, Yihuan; Blanton, Melanie; O'Byrne, Ian; Andrews, Ashley. (2021). The virtual pivot: Transitioning computational thinking PD for middle and high school content area teachers. Proceedings of the 52nd ACM technical symposium on computer science education.
- 2021 Instructional technology in context: Building on cross-disciplinary perspectives of a professional learning community
Journal article · O’Byrne, W Ian; Keeney, Kate; Wolfe, Jack. (2021). Instructional technology in context: Building on cross-disciplinary perspectives of a professional learning community. TechTrends.
2018
- 2018 Designing Spaces for Creativity and Divergent Thinking: Pre-Service Teachers Creating Stop Motion Animation on Tablets
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Radakovic, Nenad; Hunter-Doniger, Tracey; Fox, Madison; Kern, Reggie; Parnell, Stephanie. (2018). Designing Spaces for Creativity and Divergent Thinking: Pre-Service Teachers Creating Stop Motion Animation on Tablets. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology.
- 2018 Digital storytelling in early childhood: Student illustrations shaping social interactions
Journal article · O'Byrne, William Ian; Houser, Katherine; Stone, Ryan; White, Mary. (2018). Digital storytelling in early childhood: Student illustrations shaping social interactions. Frontiers in Psychology.
2016
- 2016 The role of K-12 education in creating critical digital experts in the era of Web 2.0
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian. (2016). The role of K-12 education in creating critical digital experts in the era of Web 2.0. First Monday.
- 2016 Computational participation: Understanding coding as an extension of literacy instruction
Journal article · Burke, Quinn; O'Byrne, W Ian; Kafai, Yasmin B. (2016). Computational participation: Understanding coding as an extension of literacy instruction. Journal of adolescent & adult literacy.
- 2016 Four steps to conducting action research in the classroom
Journal article · O’Byrne, WI. (2016). Four steps to conducting action research in the classroom. Ian O'Byrne.
2015
- 2015 Digital badges: Recognizing, assessing, and motivating learners in and out of school contexts
Journal article · O’Byrne, W Ian; Schenke, Katerina; Willis, James E; Hickey, Daniel T. (2015). Digital badges: Recognizing, assessing, and motivating learners in and out of school contexts. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
- 2015 Hybrid and blended learning: Modifying pedagogy across path, pace, time, and place
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Pytash, Kristine E. (2015). Hybrid and blended learning: Modifying pedagogy across path, pace, time, and place. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
- 2015 Multicultural education and multiliteracies: Exploration and exposure of literacy practices with preservice teachers
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Smith, Shane A. (2015). Multicultural education and multiliteracies: Exploration and exposure of literacy practices with preservice teachers. Reading & Writing Quarterly.
2014
- 2014 Coding and Connecting Complex Literature
Book chapter · McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Coding and Connecting Complex Literature. Using Technology to Enhance Reading.
- 2014 Research on literacy instruction and learning in virtual, blended, and hybrid environments
Book chapter · Pytash, Kristine E; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Research on literacy instruction and learning in virtual, blended, and hybrid environments. Handbook of research on K-12 online and blended learning.
2012
- 2012 Cool Tools: Potential Uses, Assessments, and Methodologies for the Literacy Educator and Researcher
Conference paper · McVerry, J Gregory; O'Byrne, Ian; John, Bartles; Joanne, Rhodes; Katina, Zammit; Devere, Wosley. (2012). Cool Tools: Potential Uses, Assessments, and Methodologies for the Literacy Educator and Researcher. Literacy Research Association.