It is in this season of conferences that I recognize that no matter how long it’s been since I’ve seen colleagues or friends, no matter how long it’s been since I’ve engaged with my favorite work of the Writing Project and NCTE, that the network that has sustained me throughout both my High School and… Continue reading Connecting my learning by connecting at #nwpam14 and #ncte14
Author: Andrea Z
A Day in the Life of A Digital Learner #dlday
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Badges as Goals: Achievement Goal Theory
This is part of a series of posts that will build into my final paper for the Motivation course I am taking this semester. I want to emphasize that this a rough draft and welcome comments, especially ones that point out flaws in my logic or understanding of the motivational theory under consideration. I’m going… Continue reading Badges as Goals: Achievement Goal Theory
NCTE and dead white males
Had you been following the #ncte11 twitter feed on Friday morning, you would have seen a number of messages coming out of the session I was in. Convened by Jim Burke, and following a rousing call-to-arms from Linda Darling-Hammond in the General Session, the panel boasted some big names in the field: Carol Jago, Sandra… Continue reading NCTE and dead white males
Badges as gold stars: The Behavioral View of Motivation and Learning
This is part of a series of posts that will build into my final paper for the Motivation course I am taking this semester. I want to emphasize that this a rough draft and welcome comments, especially ones that point out flaws in my logic or understanding of the motivational theory under consideration. I’m going… Continue reading Badges as gold stars: The Behavioral View of Motivation and Learning
More on Motivation: CEP 910
I blogged earlier today about my Current Issues in Motivation and Learning course. So far this semester we are on Week 9, and each week has been a new set of motivational theories. As a newbie psychologist, this has been a bit overwhelming. I felt confused about the ways the theories built on each other… Continue reading More on Motivation: CEP 910
#openbadges and Motivation
This semester I am taking Dr. Cary Roseth’s Current Issues in Motivation and Learning course. I have also been following the Digital Media and Learning Open Badges competition. As I’ve been reading and thinking about different motivational theories, I can’t help but wonder about the ways that those theories might explain how the Badges for… Continue reading #openbadges and Motivation
Scribbling on the Internet: Hackjam and WIDE-EMU ’11
Hackjams are simply “Webmaking for the rest of us.” Why a Hackjam? In our development as writers, there are always the tools that assist us in making the thinking in our heads visible and readable. The transformation of thoughts into prose is complex. Young children are certainly full of imagination and compose oral stories to… Continue reading Scribbling on the Internet: Hackjam and WIDE-EMU ’11
Thoughts on Badges for Learning
This morning I was actively engaged in the backchannel for the Digital Media and Learning competition announcement. This year’s competition focuses on Badges for Learning, which seems inspired in part by Mozilla’s Open Badge initiatives and P2PU. I fully admit to spending most of my time on the backchannel really trying to understand where the… Continue reading Thoughts on Badges for Learning
Damn, I’m a writer
When I went through the Red Cedar Writing Project in 2005, I was a teacher of writing who was becoming a writer. At the center of the Writing Project experience is the notion that to teach, one must do. One of the first steps was to own our identities as writers, even though calling myself… Continue reading Damn, I’m a writer
