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I am teaching a course entitled “Language, Literacy, and Diversity in American Schools.” It is a master’s level course for teachers earning their Master’s in Literacy and their professional NYS certification. I’ve asked the teachers to keep a “chapbook” or notebook of their thoughts as they move through the course work. I’ve also just recently [...]

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I’ve been fighting – not depression – maybe ennui is the better word for the past week or so.
Then today I was thinking about something I said to some one at the local food co-op a few weeks ago. I had finished my shopping and went to cash out. A woman was kind of milling [...]

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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’m reading Emergence by Steven Johnson which is about self-organizing systems and complexity theory, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond by Axel Bruns and just finished Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. Tomorrow I’m going to work on synthesizing the three texts along with Jenkin’s Convergence Culture and Lankshear & Knobel’s stuff on Web2.0 with [...]

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I decorated for Christmas today. Didn’t feel like it, but did it anyway. This year is so weird. Usually I’m all psyched about Christmas, but this year we won’t be here. I think it’s a control issue thing. Ever since the kidlings were little I was in control of Christmas. Decorating, cooking, shopping, wrapping, coordinating [...]

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