This occasional series, Weekend Reading, offers suggestions for books, articles, and research papers that can foster professional growth.   This latest installment includes Johanna Riddle’s recently released Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom and studies from the MacArthur Foundation and the Biologist that offer very different viewpoints regarding social networking. Engaging [...]

Stenhouse Publishers have invited readers of Technology in the Middle to participate in a book blog tour for Johanna Riddle’s Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom. Johanna’s book (which can be browsed in its entirety here) addresses the concept of literacy in the 21st century and shows educators how to [...]

Yesterday I participated in an information session for the Parents Association on the topic of “Growing Up Online: Understanding the Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll.”  Over the course of an hour, we discussed a number of issues related to raising children in the Digital Age, ranging from Internet filters to sexting, but social [...]