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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
- 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.
- Nov 1, 2025 The Difficulty of Hope Right Now
A reflection on holding onto hope when things feel hard.
- Jun 18, 2025 A Toolkit for the Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Classroom
A practical toolkit for bringing human judgment into AI-supported teaching.
- 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
- Aug 12, 2024 Understanding the Power of Social and Emotional Learning in Education
Why social and emotional learning matters as much as academics.
- May 30, 2024 Embracing Parenthood: Facing Life Through the Eyes of a Child
A reflection on parenthood, hardship, and daily resilience.
- Apr 9, 2024 Redefining Education – Equipping Students for a Complex Future
Why education needs to adapt to a more complex, rapidly changing world.
2023
- Sep 9, 2023 AI and the Art of Writing: Balancing Innovation with Tradition in Education
How AI changes the writing process and what schools should do about it.
- 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 23, 2023 Privilege and the Future of AI in the Classroom
How privilege shapes the future of AI in classroom settings.
2022
- 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.
- Feb 8, 2022 Sharing What You Love
Why sharing what you love can make teaching more meaningful.
- Jan 21, 2022 Mind the Gap
A reminder to close the gap between values and behavior.
2021
- 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 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.
- Jan 20, 2021 Teaching in the Time of COVID
How teaching changed during COVID and what that revealed.
- 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.
- 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 7, 2020 Trouble Sounding Stupid
Why sounding stupid can be part of learning and building identity.
- 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.
- Sep 8, 2020 Going high tech without losing high touch
How to stay high-tech without losing the human side of teaching.
- Mar 14, 2020 Teaching When Things Go Sideways
How to keep teaching when everything goes sideways.
2019
- Aug 22, 2019 Revolutionary Poets Society
How a slam poetry course helps students respond to the moment.
2018
- Jul 25, 2018 Encountering harmful discourses in the classroom
How educators can respond when hate and harmful discourse enter class.
- May 1, 2018 Practicing what you preach
A reminder that leadership means aligning your actions with your principles.
- Apr 11, 2018 What is “empowerment” in education?
A reflection on why empowerment keeps showing up in my research and teaching.
- Feb 16, 2018 Embedding STEAM into K-8 classrooms
How STEAM can help younger learners connect school and life.
2017
- Dec 12, 2017 How to debate in real life
How to handle real-life debate with more care and insight.
- May 24, 2017 Stop Motion Movie Creation in Early Childhood Education
How stop-motion projects can support early childhood learning.
2016
- Nov 15, 2016 Developing a domain of one’s own for pre-service educators
How pre-service educators can build a domain of their own.
- Oct 4, 2016 Four steps to conducting action research in the classroom
How action research helps teachers solve classroom problems.
- Jan 19, 2016 Implementing Transmedia Storytelling
How transmedia storytelling helps educators connect learning across disciplines and media.
2015
- Nov 23, 2015 Screencaptures & Screencasts in Education, Assessment, and Research
How screencasts can improve assessment and support multimodal learning.
- Sep 6, 2015 Using Vialogues to Scaffold Student Use of Video and Dialogue in the Classroom
How Vialogues can support video-based classroom discussion.
- Apr 24, 2015 Hybrid & Blended Learning: Modifying pedagogy across time, place, path, & pace
How hybrid and blended learning change pedagogy across time and place.
- Feb 2, 2015 Digital Literacy Practices for Working With English Learners (ELs)
How digital literacy practices can support English learners.
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.
- 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 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Jul 17, 2013 Overview of Online Research & Media Skills Model, MOOC, and Badges
An overview of the ORMS MOOC and its badge system.
- Apr 22, 2013 Spending a Little Time “Making” the Web
Why participating in Mozilla's Teach the Web work matters for digital literacy.
- Apr 2, 2013 Inquiry and the Learning Process
Why inquiry matters in teaching, learning, and educational technology.
- Mar 23, 2013 Surviving a Campus Shooter
Why campus safety training matters for faculty and staff.
- Mar 19, 2013 A Tale of Two Wikis: Open & Closed Learning Management Systems
How open and closed wiki systems shaped my classroom workflow.
- Jan 24, 2013 Producing and Sharing Online Screencasts to Support Learners
How screencasts can teach procedures better than text alone.
2010
- Nov 24, 2010 The Digital Coursepack
How a digital coursepack can support classroom learning.
- Oct 13, 2010 What is New Literacies?
A simple explanation of what new literacies means.
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.