Kyle Matthew Oliver

Category: Technology-Enhanced Learning

  • On Display: The power of tool-rich cultures

    On Display: The power of tool-rich cultures

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    In his book Changing Minds: Computers, Learning and Literacy, educational researcher Andrea diSessa extolls the learning potential of “tool-rich cultures.” Don’t let the technological connotations of “tool” overwhelm your imagination. “Tool” is a pretty broad category. As an Episcopalian, I count on The Book of Common Prayer as one of my most powerful and versatile tools. At the…

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    It’s been more than a year since something I actually wrote got published anywhere but on this blog, so I couldn’t help but post a link to my short write-up of an engineering-education-related talk Professor Greg Moses gave at a recent department colloquium. If you’ve got a second, you should also check out some of…