Category: Blog
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Precis: A Learning Sciences Perspective on the Design and Use of Assessment in Education
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Pellegrino (2022) offered a detailed exploration of educational assessment from a learning sciences perspective, providing practical guidance on how assessments can be thoughtfully designed and used in practice. A few times I questioned my decision to include this chapter in my final critical reflection, especially during past 2 weeks as…
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Precis: Advances in Teacher Learning Research in the Learning Sciences
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The fourth article I selected is Fishman et al. (2022) because of the strong connections it shares with the other three articles. Hora et al. (2021), Marshall & Horn (2025), Clark et al. (2024), and Fishman et al. (2022) all explore how teachers learn and adapt their teaching practices in…
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Critical Reflections on Design
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This paper presents my critical reflection on how the concept of design is conceptualized and applied across a selection of research articles in the learning sciences through this semester. Design in education is more than just arranging content or selecting tools, it’s about making purposeful decisions on theory, context, and…
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Precis: Reframing design in education: Proposing a framework to support pre-service teachers in adopting designerly stances
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The article, Reframing design in education: Proposing a framework to support pre-service teachers in adopting designerly stances by Clark et al. (2024), introduced a six-dimension framework to help pre-service teachers adopt designerly thinking in their instructional design practices. Drawing on existing literature and data from the pre-service teacher coursework, the study aims…
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Precis: Teachers as agentic synthesizers: Recontextualizing personally meaningful practices from professional development
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The transition from Hora et al.’s (2021) article, which identifies critical issues and needs in faculty development, to Marshall and Horn’s (2025) article feels logical and natural because it shifts the focus to how teachers actually learn and adapt new practices in these complex, real-world contexts. These articles build on…
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Precis: A sociocultural approach to communication instruction
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As someone deeply engaged in supporting post-secondary instructors with online course design, I found the article, A sociocultural approach to communication instruction: How insights from communication teaching practices can inform faculty development programs by Hora et al. (2021) both relevant and insightful for both my professional practice and research. Hora…
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Memo Ethnography and Interaction Analysis: Examples
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Sengupta et al. (2021) explored how using different ways to present ideas in coding can improve science learning in elementary classrooms. The study focuses on Emma, an elementary teacher who integrates coding into her science curriculum through computational modelling, hands-on activities, and sociomathematical norms that develop mathematical thinking. The study…
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Memo Ethnography and Interaction Analysis: Foundations
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Jordan and Henderson (1995) introduced Interaction Analysis (IA) as a video-based method for studying human interactions. They argued for the advantages of video-based analysis over traditional methods, such as participant observation and interviews, as it provides a more complete, objective, and permanent record of events. Jordan and Henderson (1995) begin…
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Reflection on Reflective Writing to Inform Teaching Practice
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Today’s workshop, Reflective Writing to Inform Teaching Practice, focused on how reflective writing can enhance teaching and learning. Led by Patrick Hanlon, the session introduced several models and strategies for reflective writing and showed how these tools could help teachers, course designers, and students develop greater self-awareness and improve their…
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Memo Grounded Theory: Examples
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The research conducted by Diaz et al. (2024), looked at the interaction between university education and industry practice in engineering through the theoretical framework of Communities of Practice (CoP). Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how…