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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.
2025
- Jul 2, 2025 Beyond Language: Why Educators Have a Hidden AI Superpower
Why educators have a hidden advantage when working with AI.
2024
- 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 Its Synergy with Artificial Intelligence
How experiential learning and AI can work together in practice.
- Jun 9, 2024 Experiential Learning and AI - Redefining Education Through Immersive Experiences
How experiential learning and AI could reshape education.
- Jun 4, 2024 Breaking Out of Our Own Biases: A Journey to Self Awareness
How to notice your own biases and widen your perspective.
- Jun 1, 2024 Shifting the Blame: The User vs Developer in Digital Spaces
Why good systems blame design less and users less often.
- May 30, 2024 Embracing Parenthood: Facing Life Through the Eyes of a Child
A reflection on parenthood, hardship, and daily resilience.
- Jan 30, 2024 The Evolving Digital Commonplace Book
How a digital commonplace book can evolve over time.
2023
- Sep 19, 2023 Embracing the Digital Frontier: Challenges and Opportunities of Online Phonics Modules for Pre-Service Teachers
How online phonics modules can support pre-service teachers.
- Mar 31, 2023 What Is Your WHY?
Why education can be a meaningful path for positive change.
- Feb 24, 2023 Towards Transformative Socioemotional Learning
How digital literacy, identity, and SEL can support post-truth classrooms.
- Jan 9, 2023 Gamify Your Learning Process With Habitica
How Habitica turns habits and tasks into a gamified learning system.
2022
- 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.
- Apr 3, 2022 Bearing Witness
A personal reflection on grief, ceremony, and bearing witness.
- Feb 9, 2022 Developing a Culture of Inquiry
How to build a classroom culture that supports inquiry.
- Feb 8, 2022 Sharing What You Love
Why sharing what you love can make teaching more meaningful.
2021
- Oct 3, 2021 The Best Questions Are Naive Questions
Why naive questions can lead to better thinking and discovery.
- Jul 17, 2021 There Are Always Two Paths
Why crisis often leaves us with more than one path forward.
- May 15, 2021 Shine
A short reflection on gratitude, resilience, and showing up.
- May 12, 2021 Computational Thinking for the Educator & Researcher
How educator-researchers can think with computational thinking.
- Apr 26, 2021 Healthy Avatars and Sick People
How digital health systems can both improve care and create new risks.
- 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 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 10, 2021 Threshold Concepts
How threshold concepts change the way people learn.
- Feb 5, 2021 Leadership Roles, Skills, and You
What makes a worthwhile leader and the roles and skills behind it.
- Jan 5, 2021 From Trash to Treasure
How a hard semester turned into a lesson in recovery and reflection.
2020
- Dec 16, 2020 Technology is a Tool, Not the Strategy
Why technology should support a strategy, not become the strategy.
- Nov 23, 2020 Learning Strategies
How students use learning strategies to organize and improve study.
- Nov 21, 2020 From The Block Up
How young people are building change from the ground up.
- Nov 18, 2020 How to Give Accurate & Critical Feedback
Why feedback works better when it is accurate, direct, and constructive.
- Nov 13, 2020 Hell Yeah…or No
A simple filter for deciding what’s worth your time and energy.
- Nov 5, 2020 Engaging With Activist Texts in Learning Environments
How activist texts can support learning and social change.
- Oct 27, 2020 Play “What’s The Rule?” to Develop Computational Thinking
A simple game for helping children notice patterns and think computationally.
- Oct 21, 2020 Look For The Good Apples
What strong groups do differently, and how to build them.
- Oct 20, 2020 Fail Hard
Why failure can be a useful part of ambitious goal-setting.
- Oct 14, 2020 The Doorway Effect
Why the doorway effect makes us forget what we meant to do.
- Oct 7, 2020 Trouble Sounding Stupid
Why sounding stupid can be part of learning and building identity.
- 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 24, 2020 Our Experience With COVID-19 Tests
What our family learned from getting COVID tests and antibody tests.
- Sep 15, 2020 Be The Expert
A reminder that expertise is built by making and learning from mistakes.
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.
- Jan 16, 2019 Semi-Permeable Membranes as Digital Learning Spaces
Why failure can be part of learning and knowledge growth.
2018
- Nov 21, 2018 Digital Literacies and the Skinner Box
How behaviorism still shapes digital literacy and classroom technology.
- Feb 13, 2018 Creating a strategic plan for your life
Why a strategic plan should shape more than just the next task.
2017
- Nov 24, 2017 Wisdom is Tolerance of Cognitive Dissonance
How cognitive dissonance shapes judgment, wisdom, and learning.
- Nov 24, 2017 Information Without Emotion is Rarely Retained
Why emotion helps information stick in learning.
- Nov 16, 2017 Goals, Strategies, Objectives, & Tactics
A simple framework for turning a plan into goals, strategies, objectives, and tactics.
- Nov 16, 2017 Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.
Why slower, careful work can be smoother and faster overall.
- 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.
2016
- Oct 17, 2016 Vertical Teams and the Open Organizational Structure of BadgeChain
A look at BadgeChain's organizational structure and evolution.
- Oct 11, 2016 BadgeChain Annual Report (2015-2016)
A review of BadgeChain's work over the past year and what's next.
- Apr 7, 2016 Digital portfolios
What digital portfolios are and why they matter for learning and identity.
- Mar 9, 2016 How to plan, present, & survive a Pecha Kucha style presentation
How to plan and deliver a concise Pecha Kucha presentation.
- Jan 6, 2016 Helping Educators Become Digitally Literate
How to help educators become more digitally literate.
2015
- Apr 16, 2015 Developing & maintaining learning connections online in a networked learning project
How to use the internet as a site for self-directed learning.
2014
- Dec 31, 2014 A Response to a Request to Ban Handheld Devices for Children Under 12
A balanced response to calls for banning devices for children under 12.
- Nov 12, 2014 Letters in Support of the UNH Education Department
A collection of letters supporting the UNH Education Department.
- Apr 25, 2014 Application for the Web Literacy Ninja Badge – Donatello of the Web Lit Ninja Turtles
My application for the Web Literacy Ninja Badge.
- Feb 3, 2014 Looking at Student Work to Identify Deeper Learning
How to spot deeper learning by looking closely at student work.
- Jan 23, 2014 The Curious Case of Mr. Adair & The Count of Monte Cristo
A personal story about procrastination, reading, and one early learning experience that still shapes how I think about teaching and growth.
- 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
- Sep 18, 2013 Thinking and Talking About Open Badging Initiatives…and the Failure Badge
What an open badge initiative can learn from failure.
- 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 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.
- Jul 29, 2013 Develop Your Own Personal Learning Network Using Twitter
How educators can use Twitter to build a personal learning network.
- May 19, 2013 Working Individually & Collaboratively While Constructing Online Content #teachtheweb
How to balance solo and collaborative work while making online content.
- Mar 19, 2013 A Tale of Two Wikis: Open & Closed Learning Management Systems
How open and closed wiki systems shaped my classroom workflow.
- Mar 9, 2013 Backyard Science – The Rocket Report
A backyard rocket project and what it shows about learning.
Book notes
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- 2025 The Disengaged Teen
Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop
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- 2019 The Self-Driven Child
William Stixrud, Ned Johnson
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- 2016 Becoming Wise
Krista Tippett
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- 2011 A New Culture of Learning
Douglas Thomas, John Seely Brown