AACE 2018 Winter/Spring News Roundup By Allie Alayan for AACE Review The AACE Review News Roundup is a periodical summary of educational technology themes and debates in the blogosphere. For the review, we scan the latest posts of several blogs, and we constantly add new voices in the mix. … Read more
“You are what you Hashtag” …Being Purposeful in Creating Your #PLN By Jennifer Wright for AACE Review A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is a way for professionals to seek out and gain information by connecting with those in their field through a social media platform. The idea of leveraging networks has become more relevant than … Read more
EdTech Research – Where to Publish, How to Share (Part 3): Social Networks and Identifiers for Sharing Articles and Monitoring Citations By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Are you curious who is reading your work, and eager to make connections to other researchers and practitioners in your field? Are you interested in tracking metrics such as your general citation count, h-index or i10-index? Would you … Read more
EdTech Research – Where to Publish, How to Share (Part 2): Journal Metrics, Rankings and Citation Information By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review How can authors find out more about the journals they are considering for submitting their work? Just as researchers build reputation over time that can be depicted (in part) through quantitative measures such as h-index and i10-index, journals … Read more
EdTech Research – Where to Publish, How to Share (Part 1): Journal Overview By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review You have implemented and evaluated an educational technology project, engaged in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, conducted an empirical study, written a literature review, or undertook an ethnographic journey of discovery. Whatever your research endeavor, at some … Read more
Exploring Visual Literacies Through Educational Technology Lenses By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review Since Antiquity, many Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates were trying to understand visual objects and their role in society and their impact on an ‘informed’ mind (Benoît, 2015). Visuals can convey messages, share emotions … Read more
The faces of School Library Makerspaces: Teacher Librarians Jackie Child and Megan Daley By Angela Brown for AACE Review Surrounded by content resources, library spaces can be easily imagined as content creation spaces. School Libraries in particular, can be seen to have an almost ‘goldilocks’ environment, just right for a Makerspace. From outside, it may seem almost … Read more
Looking Back at the First Horizon Report: What Lessons Can We Learn? By Xinyun Peng for AACE Review The New Media Consortium (NMC) was a non-profit organization focus on exploring the use of new technologies and media in learning. It was founded in 1993 and unfortunately announced bankruptcy in December 2017. Since 2004, NMC’s flagship publication, … Read more
Book Review: Girls who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani By Angela Brown for AACE Review Reshma Saujani’s book Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World conjures up conflicting emotions for me, before I even turn a page. Part of me wishes this book didn’t need to exist and that there … Read more
Intergroup Empathy: The Role of Diversity in Learning By Rima Chamout for AACE Review The Innovating Pedagogy Report 2017 sees ‘intergroup empathy’ as a long-term trend in educational technology. Online learning environments and social media networks form global virtual spaces. In these spaces, people from different backgrounds interact with each other, even … Read more