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TTT#350 Booktalk on Gee's The Anti-Education Era - Pete Rorabaugh, Marcie Lewis, Roger Whitson, Leigh Wolf, Gerry James 5.22.13

Paul Allison - Fri, 2013-05-31 03:09

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On this episode of TTT we begin a conversation about James Paul Gee's book, The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students Through Digital Learning (2013).

New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=628397
eBook available here: http://us.macmillan.com/Book.aspx?isbn=9781137324115
Kindle edition: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OZN6KS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270488014

Enjoy this episode of TTT, even if you've just started the book! It might give you some insights as you read. Gee will be joining us on TTT on Wednesday, June 5th. If you would like to join us in the Hangout-on-Air, please let us know.

You might also be interested in this essay by Gee: Digital Media and Learning: A Prospective Retrospective http://www.jamespaulgee.com/sites/default/files/pub/Humans%20learn%20from%20experience.pdf

On this episode we are joined by:

Gerry James - @gjames3312 http://edreach.us/channel/edgamer
Leigh Wolf - @gravesle http://www.leighgraveswolf.com
Roger Whitson - @rogerwhitson http://www.rogerwhitson.net
Check out - Hybrid Pedagogy: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com

Here are a few paragraphs from the introductin of James Paul Gee's The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students Through Digital Learning.

To continue this conversation, please plan to join us along with James Paul Gee at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, June 5 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times http://goo.gl/kfQfu

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #281 - National Writing Project Teachers Ready to Celebrate Digital Learning Day on Feb 1 - 1.25.12

Paul Allison - Wed, 2012-02-01 11:59

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This conversation about #NWP teachers in the National Digital Learning Day continued the next day at NWP Radio - on Blog Talk Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio/2012/01/27/digital-writing-matters

What are your plans for National Digital Learning Day #DLDay on February 1, 2012? http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/what-are-your-plans-national-digital-lea/3369

Enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, recorded a week before the big day.

+Paul Oh helped us invite this amazing list of guests. They are listed below, along with one thing we've asked them in our conversation about Digital Learning Day.

+Natalie Bernasconi, Central California Writing Project and middle school teacher; presenting the Digital ID wiki http://digital-id.wikispaces.com/Welcome as part of California Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento on Feb. 1

+Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project and Instructional Technologist in Elk Grove, California; also presenting the Digital ID wiki as part of Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento

+Andrea Zellner, Red Cedar Writing Project, doc student at Michigan State University, who is working with Michigan State’s MA in Ed Tech program to “try something new” and document; artifacts from and about the experiences will be found here: http://dlday2012.tumblr.com/

+Leigh Wolf, Program Director for the MA in Ed Tech Program, is coordinating efforts with Andrea; here’s a link to a post at Leigh’s bloghttp://www.leighgraveswolf.com about Digital Learning Day.

+Tom Fox, Northern California Writing Project & National Writing Project, English Professor at Chico State University, will be presenting digital compositions created by his students at the Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento

+Jack Zangerle, Hudson Valley Writing Project, 8th Grade ELA teacher in Dover, NY, doing things for Digital Learning Day in his classroom

+Matt Dunleavy, former Tech Liaison of the Tidewater Writing Project in Virginia, and a professor at Radford University, currently working with Chris Dede from Harvard on an Augmented Reality project called EcoMobile, which will be presented in D.C. on Feb. 1 as part of Digital Learning Day activities there.

More on Digital Learning Day: http://www.digitallearningday.org