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Archive for the ‘literacy’ Category
Emily at the nursing home
Posted in literacy, school on June 1, 1999 | No Comments »
Russia and Czech republic
Posted in literacy, travel, work on March 8, 1998 | No Comments »
Our delegation traveled to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Prague.
Journal of the Citizen Ambassador Program Reading Education Delegation to Russia and the Czech Republic. Spokane, WA: People to People International.
People’s Republic of China
Posted in literacy, travel on October 1, 1993 | No Comments »
Citizen Ambassador Program Reading Education Delegation to the People’s Republic of China (Spokane, WA: People to People International).
Epilogue: Learning from China
Dialogues in Methods of Education
Posted in literacy, science, work on September 1, 1992 | No Comments »
Joined the Dialogues in Methods of Education (DIME) group. DIME members have studied together how to improve their own teaching practices through research, the sharing of ideas, and mutual support. They have also engaged in critical analysis of the disciplinary and institutional forces shaping their work. The history of DIME shows the importance of accommodating [...]
Curriculum & Instruction
Posted in literacy, philosophy, politics, science, work on August 20, 1990 | No Comments »
I worked in the Curriculum & Instruction department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1990 to 2000. I taught courses such as
Computer Assisted Instruction,
Classroom Science,
Inquiry Teaching and Learning,
Evaluation of Information Technologies,
Ethical & Policy Issues in Information Technology,
Discourses of Science,
Technologies for Learning,
Reader Response Criticism,
Children’s Composition,
Social Contexts and Functions of Writing,
Epistemology and Education,
Teacher Communities, and
Discourse [...]
Quill
Posted in literacy, school, work on September 1, 1982 | No Comments »
A suite of software tools designed to foster an environment for literacy in classrooms. The software, teacher’s guide, and workshops were used widely, including in village schools in Alaska, which I visited three times during the project. Andee Rubin and I wrote a book, Electronic Quills: A situated evaluation of using computers for writing in [...]
Center for the Study of Reading
Posted in literacy, work on June 1, 1976 | No Comments »
While at BBN, I helped write the proposal for the Center for the Study of Reading. It was established at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by the National Institute of Education in response to the growing concern about the quality of reading instruction in American schools. The proposal became the basis for the book [...]
Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Posted in literacy, work on June 1, 1974 | No Comments »
I worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman for 16 years on the Speech Understanding Research, Quill and other projects in the fields of artificial intelligence and education.
The Explorer Post Book List
Posted in literacy, philosophy, politics, science on September 3, 1963 | 2 Comments »
Explorer Post 21/52
Posted in literacy, outdoors on September 1, 1962 | No Comments »
When I was a teenager, I joined a very unusual Explorer Post (Boy Scout Troop for older boys). A couple of good friends who belonged assured me that it was fun, but they couldn’t have known how profoundly I would be affected by my experiences there, among them, the Explorer Post book list.
