"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
I have been a Khan fan ever since he founded Khan Academy in 2006 – the same year I moved to VCU as an online specialist in their Center for Teaching Excellence. I found Salman Khan’s latest book thoughtful and on point. Through nine parts and multiple short chapters, he lays out a vision of… Read more Khan’s Brave New Words
Back in 2008, as I was starting to blog, one of my first posts took exception with the term “digital native.” I noted “I often try to stretch my students or fellow faculty to try out Web 2.0 tools when they feel that they are doing a perfectly adequate job teaching in a non-wired world.… Read more From an Evolving Digital Native
As many of you know, I have not blogged in a year…and I only blogged 4 times in 2023 and twice in 2022. I was facing the re-emergence of my prostate cancer after 18 years in remission, as well as breast cancer diagnoses in both of my twin daughters. That shifted my focus to taking… Read more Educated Bravery