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If research shows that technology has drawbacks of disconnecting students from socially interacting or interpersonal experiences (Kryeziu et...
Teachers with dispositions of empathy and inclusion can still struggle to merge technology into already-effective lessons. Advocates of...
The use of technology in the classroom can be a blessing or a curse. Teachers’ dispositions can be affected by the experiences they encounter...
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”      ---William Butler Yeats          Yeats made that iconic statement...
Whether your goal is to earn your bachelor's, master's, or doctorate, the thought of being in an educational setting can be an exciting yet...
Dispositions of both teacher and student can significantly influence the role of technology in any learning movement. This blog post aims to...
Daily we are growing in understanding how to best navigate what we face as we determine how to emerge from our pandemic encounter. It is up...
I was exactly fifteen and a half to the day when my great grandmother turned 100 years old. My parents gave her a cassette tape recorder/...
The early years in the classroom can be a daunting experience for novice teachers. Nieto (2018) recounted her struggles as a first-year...
American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students are underrepresented in higher education institutions, comprising only 120,000 enrolled...
Making Technology Second Nature in Your Mathematics Classroom Technology has become a leading aid in classroom success in the 21st century....
Raise your hand if you have created more training videos, more PowerPoint presentations, or more online course modules in the last year than...
How Do You Teach THAT Online? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous upheaval and changes for almost everyone in society. In the field of...
I have been an instructor and a dissertation chair for quite a while. Most of my students are in the United States but many are also from...
We had a Blackboard discussion forum in the hybrid doctoral program I attended. One of the discussion threads was called “Water Cooler.” An...
Feedback is a key element to learning. Feedback in the virtual environment may be synchronous or asynchronous. Asynchronous feedback may be...
Online engagement is making significant impact on all aspects of educational learning, training, and development. Educational Technology (...
Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) accepts students as individuals and supports a balance of voices. From this lens, teachers...
Online graduate education presents a myriad of challenges for the student. For the non-native English speaker, these challenges may be...
Lots of different notetaking apps will allow you options for putting information into the  app but Evernote leads the pack by providing both...