I am an associate professor of Educational Psychology and Educational Technology at the College of Education at Michigan State University. This site is the digital portfolio of my academic life.
I graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1999, with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with an emphasis in Cognitive Psychology applied to Education. I have prior degrees in Computer Science (M.S. and B.S.) and Mathematics (B.S.). All of this has led me to the study of educational technology, where my interests have led me, broadly speaking, to seek to understand the pedagogical affordances of newer technologies for learning.
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Interesting stories from around the internet related to technology, research, or education.
My recent interest in data farming via the web has intersected with my interest in seeing how widely the Mishra & Koehler (2006) article has become cited and accepted.
Zhang, M., Lundeberg, M.A., Koehler, M.J., & Eberhardt, J. (2011). Understanding affordances and challenges of three types of video for teacher professional development. Teaching and Teacher Education, 27(2), 454-262.
Mishra, P., Koehler, M.J., & Henriksen, D. (2011). The seven trans-disciplinary habits of mind: Extending the tpack framework towards 21st century learning. Educational Technology, 11(2), 22-28.
Yadav, A.,Phillips, M.M., Lundeberg, M.A., Koehler, M.J., Hilden, K.H., & Dirkin, K.H. (2011). If a picture is worth a thousand words is video worth a million? Differences in affective and cognitive processing of video and text cases. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 23(1), 15-37. DOI 10.1007/s12528-011-9042-y.
Via CNN, I found this article to be really interesting and spot on, along with the TED video:
Companies spend billions on rent, offices, and office equipment so their employees will have a great place to work. However, when you ask people where they go when they really need to get something done, you’ll rarely hear them say it’s the office.
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