#reading
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Writing
2025
- Oct 1, 2025 How to Run Your Own AI Models: Getting Started with LM Studio
How to get started building your own local AI sandbox with LM Studio.
2024
- Feb 1, 2024 Exploring Humanity Through a Galactic Lens
What Children of Time reveals about humanity, evolution, and power.
- Jan 30, 2024 The Evolving Digital Commonplace Book
How a digital commonplace book can evolve over time.
2023
- Nov 9, 2023 Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole
How QAnon grew from fringe internet spaces into a political force.
- Nov 1, 2023 Boost Your Learning Through Effective Note-Taking
How smart note-taking can improve learning and thinking.
- Oct 24, 2023 Examining Human History and Evolution in Sapiens
What Sapiens reveals about human history, evolution, and power.
- Oct 6, 2023 The Power of Empathy in an Age of Division
Why empathy matters in a divided, trauma-shaped world.
- Oct 3, 2023 Noah Hawley’s Dystopian Thriller Anthem – A Review
A quick take on Noah Hawley's novel Anthem.
- Oct 1, 2023 Examining White Privilege and Racism – A Review of White Fragilty
A reflection on Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility.
- Sep 24, 2023 Bending the Rules: A Review of Bruce Schneier’s Insightful Book ‘A Hacker’s Mind”
What A Hacker's Mind reveals about systems, power, and exploitation.
- Sep 16, 2023 A Thoughtful Look at How New Technologies Are Reshaping Our World
A takeaway on how new technologies reshape society and power.
2022
- Apr 21, 2022 Towards a New Normal: Motivation & engagement in digital spaces
What a new normal might mean for teaching after the pandemic.
- 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
- May 25, 2021 Mental Health and Depression
How trauma and depression affect learning, life, and well-being.
- May 15, 2021 Shine
A short reflection on gratitude, resilience, and showing up.
- Mar 26, 2021 My Ratio of Signal to Noise
How to keep your digital life organized without losing the signal to noise.
2020
- Nov 4, 2020 Live an Antifragile Way of Life
What antifragility means and why growth can come from disorder.
- Oct 3, 2020 Trading Up The Chain
How misinformation and speculation move up the media chain.
- Sep 24, 2020 Our Experience With COVID-19 Tests
What our family learned from getting COVID tests and antibody tests.
- Sep 14, 2020 Using Graphic Novels in Your Classroom
How graphic novels can support adolescent literacy and classroom discussion.
- Sep 10, 2020 My DIY Peloton
A quick look at Peloton and the appeal of connected fitness.
- Jun 9, 2020 Do The Work
How to turn anti-racist intentions into sustained action.
2018
- May 11, 2018 What is “Critical Literacy” in Education?
Why critical literacy shapes my teaching, research, and worldview.
- Apr 3, 2018 Meaning making while reading online
How online algorithms shape meaning-making and reading.
- Feb 9, 2018 Eight steps to write a literature review
What a literature review is and how it maps the state of knowledge on a topic.
- Feb 1, 2018 Assessing students as they read, research, & respond in Hypothesis
How I assess student work with Hypothesis.
2017
- Aug 2, 2017 Develop a criteria for critical evaluation of online information
How to help students evaluate online information more critically.
- 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 15, 2017 Reflecting on My StrengthsQuest Report
Why we're using Gallup StrengthsQuest across the institution.
- Jan 17, 2017 Private online research & discussion using Hypothes.is groups
How Hypothesis can support annotation and peer review in the classroom.
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.
- Jun 22, 2016 BadgeChain Reads – A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
Welcome to the second round of BadgeChain Reads.
- Jun 9, 2016 BadgeChain Reads – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Welcome to the first round of BadgeChain Reads.
2015
- Nov 23, 2015 Allow it to be YouRTube: Planning, recording, & sharing video content online
How students learn and share through online video.
- Aug 27, 2015 Tweaking WordPress to Scaffold & Empower Your Readers
How WordPress tweaks can help readers navigate and contribute.
2014
- Mar 13, 2014 TechTalk 004 – RapGenius and PoetryGenius
Why annotation platforms like Rap Genius and Poetry Genius mattered as early experiments in social reading, commentary, and connected learning.
- 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.
2013
- Sep 11, 2013 Synthesis of Argumentation in Online Informational Text
How to synthesize argumentation in online informational texts.
- Jul 23, 2013 Digital MacGyver: Pocket & the Ability to Read it Later
A pocket guide to the tools and tricks I use to get work done.
2012
- Jan 17, 2012 Creating a Culture of Online Learning
How to build a classroom culture around online learning and student blogging.
Book notes
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- 2025 The Shallows
Nicholas Carr
Publications
2019
- 2019 Defining Instructional Text: Eight literacy scholars discuss framing and trade-offs
Journal article · Hruby, George; Hiebert, Elfrieda; McGill-Franzen, Anne; Draper, Roni Jo; Serafini, Frank; Chandler-Olcott, Kelly; McVerry, J. Greg; O'Byrne, W Ian. (2019). Defining Instructional Text: Eight literacy scholars discuss framing and trade-offs. Ubiquity: The Journal of Literature, Literacy, and the Arts.