Category Archives: METatheory

An interesting phenomenon I’ve been hearing about in my teaching circle lately is the idea of “decision fatigue”. Making hundreds of executive decisions each day takes its toll. While draining, this is part of what makes the work so rewarding … Continue reading →

As a young undergraduate studying history, I was keenly interested in people and the ways we have interacted with others; be it those within the same group or with ‘outsiders’. Just how those interactions led to where we are today … Continue reading →

Retrospective Assessment In terms of design, the primary desire was something more than a “talking head” video in addition to being more engaging than text or audio alone. We also strongly followed a design principle of being accessible and easily … Continue reading →

  Jennifer Gonzalez is a former middle school language arts teacher in the United States and currently works with pre-service teachers to prepare them to build their practice.  I came across her on Twitter when some colleagues whose opinion I … Continue reading →

J.H. Pestalozzi was an eighteenth-century educational philosopher from Zurich who was greatly influenced by his poor upbringing. He lost his father at the age of six and he credited his “unstable” environment and lack of a “firm guiding hand” is … Continue reading →

Educational Media Ecologies   Based on Strate and Lum’s biography of Lewis Mumford’s scholarly contributions, as well as Lum’s paper on the intellectual roots of media ecology, and de Castell’s (et. al) Building as interface, I think of media ecologies … Continue reading →