The State of Wiki Usage in U.S. K-12 Schools
Shaking and Breaking
This site will probably look broken for a few weeks as I transition from a blog to a more portfolio-style site…
New Home for EdTechResearcher
I am very pleased to announce that my blog now has a new home with Education Week at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/. Same sort of content, but at a different home. Please come join me there!
You can’t tell stories about sunshine: How Facebook makes us better people
There are no stories in the media about the time a girl thought about getting absolutely crazy at a party, and then didn’t; instead she had a beer, chatted with some guys, danced a little, and went home. There are no stories in the media about the time a boy thought about making a terrible ...
We’re Moving!
Things will be slow on the blog for the next two weeks, as I prepare for some big changes. A major education publisher is going to be hosting ETR. Stay tuned for more details!
Ask a Researcher: What’s Next for Early Ed and iPad Research?
Today’s Ask a Researcher Question comes from a doctoral student in Massachusetts I am currently a doctoral student in Leadership in Schooling. I am a technology specialist in an urban public school system in Massachusetts, and I am considering doing my dissertation on iPad usage as well. I read your postings about Auburn and am ...
Ask a Researcher: Using the Wiki Quality Instrument in Other Settings
Here’s a question about using the Wiki Quality Instrument to measure quality in individual wiki projects: I currently have a course wiki (using wikispaces) between our preservice teachers and ninth graders in a remote secondary school. We used the wiki for a specific project, so it won’t fall under your longevity categories but I am ...
What Should We Do with the Auburn Kindergarten iPad Findings?
Mike Muir and I are having a productive, respectful back and forth specifically about his research concerning iPads in Kindergarten classrooms and more broadly about how practitioners should deal with educational research that uses statistical methods. I’m going to start with this reminder (which Mike has echoed in his own way): I think it’s completely ...
Why Online Collaboration and Schooling Don’t Mix Well
I was recently interviewed by David Weinberger for the Berkman Center’s Radio Berkman program. We ended up talking a lot about the kinds of conditions that can promote successful online, collaborative learning environments in schools. (Link to the podcast) David has a great insight at the end about the disjunction between norms in formal learning ...
Future of the Internet
The Pew Internet and American Life Project is one of the great research treasures of America, constantly producing provocative surveys describing our evolving relationship with technology. In partnership with Elon University’s, they’ve released a report on Imagining the Internet, under this headline: Teens-to-20s to benefit and suffer due to ‘always-on’ lives. From their amazing ability to juggle many tasks ...
The State of Wiki Usage in U.S. K-12 Schools
I’m very pleased to announce that the first report from my research project, the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, is published in this month’s issue of Educational Researcher, the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association. The article can be found through this direct link or at this landing page and is titled, “The ...