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 [...]

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 [...]

When I started blogging a year ago, my first several posts were on the topic of “getting connected” and developing a personal learning network (PLN).  As I was early in the process of establishing my own PLN, the issue seemed quite timely; what better way to engage teachers on the matter than to highlight the [...]