Author: onewheeljoe

  • The 2017-18 Marginal Syllabus

    The 2017-18 Marginal Syllabus

    This post summarizes the eight texts, author partnerships, and annotation conversations that comprise “Writing Our Civic Futures,” the  2017-18 Marginal Syllabus. This marks the second year the Marginal Syllabus has engaged educators in social reading, collaborative web annotation, and public conversation. Through partnership with the National Writing Project, the 2017-18 open professional learning project explores civic…

  • Emergent Problem-Crowded Margins; 3 approaches to jumping into a bustling #marginalsyllabus

    Emergent Problem-Crowded Margins; 3 approaches to jumping into a bustling #marginalsyllabus

    This post also appears on the marginalsyllab.us site.  The digital margins of Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia’s article, Civic Participation Reimagined: Youth Interrogation and Innovation in the Multimodal Public Sphere, are crowded with notes. As the second reading in Writing Our Civic Futures, this year’s #marginalsyllabus project, their piece has drawn a lot of reader…

  • A brief note on character limits and characters with no limits

    A brief note on character limits and characters with no limits

    Already missing all the cool people at #nwpam17 @dogtrax @budtheteacher @onewheeljoe @AndreaZellner @chadsansing — Peter Kittle (@pkittle) November 16, 2017 Twitter recently expanded its character limit from 140 characters to 280. Looking at my Twitter feed this morning, I see this concise tweet from Peter Kittle, a character in his own right, grouping me with…

  • What motivates the engagement and participation of young digital activists? An invitation to participate in “Writing Our Civic Futures” #marginalsyllabus

    What motivates the engagement and participation of young digital activists? An invitation to participate in “Writing Our Civic Futures” #marginalsyllabus

    As part of the collaborative, online annotation project, “Writing Our Civic Futures,” a reader created the following note in the digital margin of Henry Jenkins’ post, “How Young Activists Deploy Digital Tools for Social Change”: At the time of this writing, it was the last in a string of 27 notes left by a handful…

  • Make a Political Statement

    Make a Political Statement

    A pop-up, unofficial, experimental #clmooc make cycle A Google image search on terms like “political memes” or “election memes” provides a reading experience markedly different than opening the morning paper. This instant, biased, collage of pictures is the most complex of digital footprints, still new to even the most web literate among us. Political memes…

  • 20 minutes of code

    20 minutes of code

    Today is the day after Thanksgiving and you know what that means: just 10 more coding days until Computer Science Education Week. For the third year in a row, the organization Code.org encourages educators at all grade levels to to spend one hour of the week introducing students to coding, or computer programming, in an…

  • Believing and Doubting: thinking deeply about ed tech

    Believing and Doubting: thinking deeply about ed tech

    The influx of digital tools into schools polarizes educators. Whether the devices are student’s prized smartphones stuffed in backpacks or pockets, or shiny new Chromebooks purchased by the school to meet the demands of online standardized tests, debates spring up about screen time, software choices and, importantly, the guiding principles behind the integration of these…

  • #techquity believing and doubting with ED677

    #techquity believing and doubting with ED677

    Christina Cantrill is empowering the learners in ED677, her Connected Learning and Equity class at Arcadia University, to identify equity and inequity in learning spaces. To support them in that effort, we led a Twitter chat recently to engage them in a conversation about equity issues related to educational technology. I asked the participants to tweet using the…

  • Highlights from the #techquity conversation at #ncte14 #nwpam14

    The National Writing Project’s Annual Meeting and the National Council for Teachers of English Conference convened at the Gaylord National Resort, just a stone’s throw from Washington, DC. Below are highlights from the tweets that appeared on the #techquity hashtag during these events. I’ve annotated below each tweet in order to share a digital think-aloud…

  • Five Entry Points into the #techquity Conversation

    Five Entry Points into the #techquity Conversation

    Maha Bali, Associate Professor of Practice at the American University in Cairo’s Center for Learning and Teaching, and I will host a Tweet Chat on Tuesday, October 28, at 4:30 EDT about ed tech equity. We’ll use the hashtag #techquity. We hope it will be the first of many open conversations on the topic. By…