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This first half of this article vexes me, because although I have to agree with most of what the authors posit, almost all of it seems very idealistic. For example, right from the start, they claim, “Pedagogy is a teaching and learning relationship that creates the potential for building learning…

Today was my first visit to the Writing Center on campus. I can’t believe that I was able to compile almost four pages of notes, considering there were only a few visitors, but I think much of my observations consist of descriptions of the center itself, and so on. The…

Digital Citizenship – Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/ The reference I mention above is a web page solely concentrated on web based identities, and what those identities assume. Needs more work.…

The two writers pin point Street’s “grandiose claims for ‘academic’ literacy” which as educators, we all know is on point. I imagine a number of general education students having no problem identifying the large edifice that makes up the power inherent in education, and words like literacy making up the…

In “Modern Times” Charlie Chaplin portrays an average man working to survive in his industrialized world. He is astoundingly on point when he demonstrates how  the ‘average man’ not only struggles to come to terms with the political implications of such a society, because he not only shows how this…

P. 22 Regarding Devoss’s experience on working on this chapter: as I read through her morning ritual, it truly emphasizes how out of touch I am with the technological world. I have a few morning rituals myself, but not as many and as compounded as our author. I suppose that…

Why Johnny Can’t Read – Rudolf Flesch Metaphors We Live By – Lakoff & Johnson A Room of Their Own – Mary Wollstonecraft Son of a Witch – Greg Maguire The Bluest Eyes – Toni Morrison Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone – Fleischer & Andrew Saving Fish From Drowning –…

Almost all of my friends either received a Kindle/Nook for Christmas or purchased one for someone this year. I have seen several customers at work, using it while having their lunch. I’ve seen folks reading them at the park, at play dates, at doctor appointments…..etc. I realize how innovative and…