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Social Media in Classrooms

March 3, 2013 by Susan Detrie

While discourse about social media in schools has often trended towards the negative, using social media for instruction purposes can bring new life to many subjects. Imagine a Facebook book page created by a class for an author or a figure in history, where the class goal is to speak in the person’s voice, post pictures from their life and comment on the texts they read written by the author or historical figure. Some old friends of mine who found […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, Facebook, media literacy, social media, Vimeo, YouTube

Writing Code

March 2, 2013 by Susan Detrie

Having finally faced down Java programming and learning to write code for the first time, I discovered how programmers become hooked. Each time you write something, you learn a little more and you realize the power in making a computing device work for you. You are no longer limited by what things have been done for you, but can think in terms of what you might want to do instead. Though it takes time and dedication to get good at […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: computers, education, Java, programming

Snippet of computer code with zeros and ones

To Code Or Not To Code

September 2, 2012 by Susan Detrie

It was the columnist Thomas Friedman, at the New York Times, who suggested that in the future, students in higher education contexts double major in a field of choice and in computer science. Continuing the theme of new literacy skills, it struck me that computer science was a potential addition to the list of skills that are considered necessary for 21st century citizens. Today, students that haven’t hit middle school can be prepared to program by working with programming languages […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: computers, education, programming, technology

Geek Mythologies: Women in Computing

August 30, 2012 by Susan Detrie

Having started working on my masters final project, which was on the subject of women and computing, I began to realize that like the Greek mythologies of yore, the modern world has it own myths, especially surrounding geeks, technology and who is categorized as computer literate. I had read about a scholar in Norway, Hilde Corneliussen, who peaked my interest when she published a book in 2012 called “Gender-Technology Relations: Exploring Stability and Change”. It contained some excellent examples of […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, history, stereotypes, technology, women in tech

Multimodal Communication

August 29, 2012 by Susan Detrie

The traditional mode of communication in education has, in the past, been predominantly through the use of text. Without a convenient way to add audio, visual images, video and links to supporting materials, text primarily drove the educational experience. Now with digital technology, learning can occur fluidly in multiple modes with the integration of many forms of communication. But what does this mean for learning? As Cary Jewitt stated in Multimodality. “Reading” and “Writing” for the 21st Century, ” the […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, images, text, video

Learning and Technology

August 29, 2012 by Susan Detrie

Living in the exploding and constantly changing digital age, it is not only students who face the task of learning with technology. Somewhere, someone is learning with technology at age 90, and at age 4. One of the most interesting projects I have ever undertaken was designing a seminar course with a constructivist approach, and then looking for ways in which to integrate technology in a meaningful way. You can’t just add technology into learning environments for the purpose of […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, technology, visual literacy

Media Literacy

January 4, 2012 by Susan Detrie

Having started in video and digital graphics when it was an obscure field, with few available courses, it has been an interesting life experience to see video and digital image-making go mainstream, and grow to the extent that the average person may discuss the latest special effects in a film with knowledge or use an Adobe product for a school project or a business presentation. While many in the field express concern over everyone thinking they know all about digital […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, Henry Jenkins, media literacy, technology

SUSAN DETRIE Ed.S.

Instructional Design and Digital Media.

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