In my fifth week of class, I read the following articles/chapters: The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education by David Tyack (1974) Toward a Critical Metageography in “The Myth of continents: A Critique of Metageography” by Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen (1997) Foundations of Place:... Continue reading

In my fourth week of class, I read the following articles/chapters: Critical Pedagogy Applied Praxis by Cesar Rossatto (2002) Epistemology and Educational Research: The Influence of Recent Approaches to Knowledge by Maxine Greene (1994) Who’s Colonizing Who? The Knowledge Society Thesis and the Global Changes in Higher Education by Per-Anders... Continue reading

In my third week of class, I read the following articles/chapters: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol (1999) Social Class, School Knowledge, and the Hidden Curriculum: Retheorizing Reproduciton by Jean Anyon (2006) Understanding Cultural Diversity and Learning by Ju Ogbu (1992) Keeping Track, Part 1: The Policy... Continue reading

In my second week of class, I read the following articles: Blind Optimism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Students' Temporal Constructs and their Schooling by Dr. Cesar Rossatto (2004) Centeredness of School Pedagogy by Dr. Cesar Rossatto (2005) Does Critical Pedagogy Work with Privileged Students by Ricky Lee Allen and Dr.... Continue reading

A Conference Proposal for SITE 2012: Integrating Technology in Teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) for Student Learning in K-12 Classrooms written by Sharo Dickerson Abstract Meaningful and authentic student learning experiences are achieved through high student achievement, significant social interactions, availability of student choices, nurturing and positive learning... Continue reading

A Conference Propsal for SITE 2012: The Effectiveness of Virtual and Blended Learning in High Schools written by Sharo Dickerson Abstract This paper is a report on the study of the effectiveness of virtual and blended learning in high schools. Findings in this study have indicated that face-to-face learning is... Continue reading

A Part 2 Reflection on Contemporary Issues In Curriculum (5th Edition) and Ideology and Curriculum (3rd Edition) written by Sharo Dickerson Curriculum development and implementation entails different factors in order to achieve student academic success (Ornstein, Pajak, and Ornstein, 2011). One of these factors includes the appropriate understanding on the... Continue reading

A Reflection Paper on Walkout written by Sharo Dickerson The year 1968 was momentous for political activism (Olmos, 2006). Many events occurred during this time, such as the Vietnam War, the student protests and demonstrations that rallied against the Vietnam War, and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther... Continue reading

A Reflection on Contemporary Issues In Curriculum (5th Edition) by Allan Ornstein, Edward Pajak, Stacey Ornstein, and the Ideology and Curriculum (3rd Edition) by Michael Apple written by Sharo Dickerson In Chapter One of Contemporary Issues in Curriculum (5th Edition), philosophy is defined as a manifestation of “individuals’ life experiences,... Continue reading

A Journal on Virtual Warrensburg: Using Cooperative Learning and the Internet in the Social Studies Classroom by Scott Scheuerell written by Sharo Dickerson Abstract The author discusses how high school social studies teachers can have their students investigate local history topics and share their findings by producing Web pages, using... Continue reading

A Journal on Signature Pedagogies for Social Foundations: Negotiating Social Foundations Teaching Practices in the Field of Education by Sandra Schneider written by Sharo Dickerson Abstract The conflicts arising between the pedagogical preferences of the fields of instructional design and technology (IDT) and social foundations of education are substantial. This... Continue reading

A Journal on Backward Design for Forward Action (Grant Wiggins and Ronald Thomas, 2003) written by Sharo Dickerson Abstract Backward Design for Forward Action is a journal article written by Grant Wiggins and Ronald S. Thomas (2003). This journal reflection demonstrates the author’s analysis and perspective on (a) understanding the... Continue reading

A Reflection Paper on Contemporary Issues in Curriculum (Allan Orstein, Edward Pajak & Stacey Ornstein) and Ideology and Curriculum (Michael Apple) written by Sharo Dickerson In Chapter One of Contemporary Issues in Curriculum (5th Edition), philosophy is defined as a manifestation of “individuals’ life experiences, common sense, social and economic... Continue reading

A collaborative paper written by Sharo Dickerson, Ulises Neira-Galaviz, and Maria Cruz Quinones The importance of structure in learning and education is fundamental for several reasons as pointed out by Jerome Bruner (1960) in this Chapter. Bruner makes an important statement that learning “should serve us in the future” (p.... Continue reading

What does Bruner write about the importance of structure in learning and education? Jerome Bruner (1960) identified two ways that learning can serve the future. This includes, the “specific applicability to tasks that are highly similar to those we originally learned to perform” and the “nonspecific transfer or the transfer... Continue reading

As part of the my continuous search on different articles and information on mobile learning, I cannot help but revisit the ongoing possibilities on a partnership with Web 2.0 technologies. Ever since I have been exposed to mobile learning, I have been interested in searching for resources that can be... Continue reading

"Learning in the Age of Mobilism" by Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway (2011) Fort September 2011 Issue on http://www.districtadministration.com In this article, Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway (2011) discussed about the age of mobilism in today's learning. Laptops outsold desktops in 2008, and smartphones outsold laptops in 2010 (Norris &... Continue reading

Elliot: There must be something in the water; how else can we explain the sudden growth in mobile learning “events”? For starters, within a span of a few days, two other bloggers(Blog#1, Blog#2) have pointed out the coming “revolution” in K-12 due to mobile technologies. Why now? WHY ALL OF... Continue reading

Elliot: Someone in Korea has been reading our District Administration column! via blogs.districtadministration.com An absolute must read from Cathie and Elliot on Mobile Learning! I attended their ISTE 2011 Conference Session last June and they have both provided great revelations on the future of mobile learning. I think that this... Continue reading

We hear more about Internet safety as we continue to use and be exposed to different technologies, particularly when it comes to publishing our ideas, opinions, and feedback. The availability of tools and resources in our hands make it absolutely easier to share and communicate what we want to say,... Continue reading

In the recently concluded ISTE 2011 Conference, Chris Lehmann spoke about unlocking the potentials of students. Chris elaborated about being agents for students, which means serving as the medium for students to reach and fulfill their highest potential as lifelong learners, future citizens of the country, and leaders of our... Continue reading

As part of my continuous reflection from the recently concluded ISTE Conference 2011, I have been researching different articles, journals, videos, audios, and other web-based resources that highligted the great things that captured the best moments. One of them is a video on Alan November, who is an international leader... Continue reading

Alan November from November Learning discussed about six highly motivating learning jobs: tutorial designers, official scribes, researchers, global communicators, learning documentary producers, and solvers of real problems. This session demonstrated how students can serve as positive collaborators to fellow students in learning new lessons or reinforcing lessons that students had... Continue reading