Dr. Matthew J Koehler
mkoehler@msu.edu
I am a 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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The Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Program, at Michigan State University won the 2013 Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology awarded by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE).
http://aacte.org/news-room/press-releases/aacte-honors-michigan-state-university-with-innovative-use-of-technology-award.html
The Task: Students in the new hybrid phd program were given a rather ill-defined task. In order to better learn about behaviorism, they were first given a weekend to individually come up with script ideas to “sell behaviorism” as a commercial (1 minute or less). In class, they worked in groups of 3 for just 3 hours to come up with one joint script, shoot the video, and edit it. The results of these videos were posted on youTube and can be seen below:
The Thinking: After showing the videos, we …
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.