Procrastadabbler

I’ve been really discouraged about my research/writing recently and really hating my teaching as well (not all of it, just parts). I can’t give up my teaching (it pays the bills), but I stepped away from the writing to see if it would make me feel better – not so stretched. I have writing projects [...]

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It’s been a bizarre week. I woke up Monday morning energized by ideas tha had been floating around in my brain and ready to tackle some writing and analysis. Then I received a letter from the Rank & Tenure committee at my institution informing me that my motion for promotion and tenure had been “disapproved.” [...]

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Just finished transcribing the first of three interviews with young women in an urban bilingual high school. They are incredible young women. I swear I’m going to hit the next person who disses urban kids. Yeah, there are troubled kids in urban areas, but there are also hard working, focused, resilient kids too.

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I just found some great resources and videos.
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center which is focusing on advancing children’s learning in the digital age. Through the website, you can access short videos of a wide range of scholars discussing issues of learning in the digital age. Two of these include Jim Gee and dana boyd.
The center [...]

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I’ve been wanting to write about this for a few days, but other things got in the way. The day I wrote about stasis, I was listening to NPR and someone was talking about stasis and how important it is to allow ourselves to experience this state. Modern society forces us to go go go, [...]

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