by mariawidmer | May 21, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
It’s 12:30 PM and your lunch period is (finally) here. Seizing your half hour to chat with friends, you scarf down three slices of cafeteria pizza in rapid succession. All-too-quickly, the bell rings and you’re off to science class, reinvigorated. Fifteen minutes in,...
by mariawidmer | May 14, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
My name is Maria and I am a coder, cellist, and tech-minded teacher working in online higher education. For the past 8 years, I have taught a large online Gen Ed performing arts course for Penn State University Park. This has been a rewarding first-hand experience of...
by mariawidmer | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog
Contextual • Cyclical • Connected The Spaces of Learning To Mimi Ito, I credit a change in my understanding of the spaces of learning. From a rather narrow definition of learning as a predominantly school-based activity, I see now that we all are participants in a...
by mariawidmer | Nov 21, 2015 | Blog
A reflection on “The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age” by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg....
by mariawidmer | Nov 8, 2015 | Blog
A reflection on “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture“, “Making Projects, Making Friends“, and “Scratch Here“. Laissez-Feral? For all of the educational promises of participatory learning, Jenkins et al note that...
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