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Book Blog Tour: Engaging the Eye Generation

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Today is the third stop on author Johanna Riddle’s book blog tour for Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom.  A number of colleagues and  Technology in the Middle readers submitted questions for Johanna, and her responses are simply delightful.
If you have not yet had an opportunity to read Johanna’s work, [...]

Engaging the Eye Generation

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

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 update [...]

Education’s Power Distance Index

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I’m not one for life-changing resolutions, but I have made a concerted effort to read more books this year.  My latest endeavor, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success, is an engaging and informative piece that should appeal to students and teachers alike.  Although Gladwell covers familiar ground in addressing the point at which children [...]