Welcome to Advancing through Technology

As teach­ers, we exist at the inter­sec­tion of tra­di­tion and inno­va­tion. With the rapid evo­lu­tion of dig­i­tal tools, our role is not only to instruct but also to crit­i­cal­ly assess the impli­ca­tions of tech­nol­o­gy in learn­ing envi­ron­ments. Jesse Miller, a … Read More

In a recent con­ver­sa­tion with Valerie Irvine, David Wiley shared insight­ful reflec­tions on the open edu­ca­tion move­ment, the impact of copy­right laws, and the inter­sec­tion of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and open­ness. A key take­away that res­onat­ed with me was the idea … Read More

Late­ly, I’ve been think­ing a lot about datafi­ca­tion, a word that might sound tech­ni­cal but actu­al­ly describes some­thing we all expe­ri­ence every day. Dr. Bon­nie Stew­art recent­ly spoke about it in a con­ver­sa­tion with Dr. Valerie Irvine, and it real­ly … Read More

After lis­ten­ing to Char­lie Watson’s pre­sen­ta­tion on assis­tive tech­nol­o­gy and dig­i­tal acces­si­bil­i­ty, I have been reflect­ing on the ways I design my class­room mate­ri­als, espe­cial­ly my dig­i­tal hand­outs in Google Class­room. Acces­si­bil­i­ty has always been some­thing I val­ue, but Charlie’s … Read More

When I first encoun­tered Luciana de Oliveira et al.’s paper, Plan­ning for Instruc­tion Using a Lan­guage-Based Approach to Con­tent Instruc­tion for Mul­ti­lin­gual Learn­ers (de Oliveira et al., 2021), it reshaped my approach to sup­port­ing Eng­lish Lan­guage Learn­ers (ELLs) in my … Read More

I recent­ly watched a pre­sen­ta­tion by Dr. Remi Kalir, mod­er­at­ed by Dr. Valerie Irvine, on the top­ic of social anno­ta­tion. Going into it, I had a sol­id grasp of anno­ta­tion as a con­cept, I’ve scrib­bled in the mar­gins of books, … Read More

Every time I sit down to reflect on the work I’ve done with this project, I feel like I’m revis­it­ing a liv­ing doc­u­ment, one that has grown and evolved along­side my teach­ing prac­tice. The process hasn’t always been smooth, and … Read More

Pacif­ic School of Inno­va­tion and Inquiry The path is made by walk­ing…   Our class recent­ly had the chance to sit in on a Zoom meet­ing with Jeff Hop­kins, the founder of the Pacif­ic School of Inno­va­tion and Inquiry (PSII), … Read More

As I work through my Master’s research, I’ve real­ized it makes more sense to focus specif­i­cal­ly on Eng­lish Lan­guage Learn­ers (ELLs) rather than try­ing to address the broad­er cat­e­go­ry of diverse learn­ers. This deci­sion comes from my expe­ri­ences in the … Read More