by jrw96 | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Every time I shop at a store that asks me to download an app to save money (I’m looking at you Target circle), I wonder about consumers who do not or cannot afford a phone. Statistically, 96% of Americans now have cellphones, but does this mean that access is equal? I...
by jrw96 | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Assessment – or the practice of revealing what students know and understand – is routine across all levels of education. With the pandemic forcing assessment to be online, now is an opportunity to reflect on the what, the how, and the why of assessment. This topic has...
by jrw96 | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
A recently published blog by Evan Stewart reminds educators that trying to create new routines in remote teaching is not as easy as it seems. The title of this post (and his) is a reference to the movie “Mean Girls” which is a comedic adaptation of the sociological...
by jrw96 | Sep 8, 2020 | EDUCATE
EDUCATE is committed to ensuring Black lives matter and supports #ScholarStrike, https://www.scholarstrike.com. Research on teaching and learning with technology has long recognized that technology is not neutral. In this moment of reckoning with racial inequity, we...
by jrw96 | Aug 31, 2020 | EDUCATE
Here we are at the beginning of the semester and I would like to remind us all that “zoom fatigue” is real. Way back in April and May a proliferation of articles told as us much and yet not much has changed regarding how we use video-conferencing software. As an...
