Living in the city, you see a lot of food waste. Yesterday I walked by the supermarket and saw 2 cartons of expired fancy imported butter in the trash – waiting for the sanitation trucks to haul them to a…
In our digital lives, there is intense competition for one thing: our attention. As a former teacher and current children’s media professional, I think about this regularly, and feel responsibility to help students learn to identify and manage digital distractions.…
This presentation, originally delivered at the TRETC conference at Teacher’s College in 2012, provides background into my professional growth from pre-k teacher to an educational technology professional. I grew up the child of 2 psychologists, earned an undergrad degree in…
At ISTE 2014, I was thrilled to share a critique of poorly implemented gamification through participating in my first IGNITE session – one of those 5 minute rants during which your slides progress automatically every 15 seconds. It’s a challenging…
Here are the slides from my Games and Storytelling presentation delivered on May 9th as part of the Tribeca Film Institutes Moving Image Blueprint education workshop. Special thanks to Colleen Macklin for the excellent keynote and Chainmakers activity that served…