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What is Morning Reading Group?

MRG started as an informal group that met to talk over articles relevant to teaching and learning at a local coffee shop in Pullman, Washington. The original members were from Washington State University’s Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology, the Libraries, and Writing Programs. But after a few years the group languished as people moved on.

In April 2009, we decided to try and revitalize the group, inviting in old members at a distance and opening up the discussion to anyone interested in what we’re reading that week. The group meets every other Wednesday from 8:15 – 9:30 a.m. Pacific and can be joined at a distance by dropping into the group’s online meeting room in Zorap. If you’re interested, please join us! See the meeting times below for more infotmation.

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  • theron
  • Stephen Spaeth
  • Jitesh Panchal
  • Sharon Roy
  • Abel Diaz
  • Ashley Ater Kranov
  • Kimberly Green
  • Trent Batson
  • Steve Borrelli
  • Nils Peterson
  • Karen Weathermon
  • Gary Brown
  • Jayme Jacobson
  • Lorena O'English

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Meeting 23: June 16 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week’s reading is Evaluation as a Cognitive Process by Michael Scriven. The article was suggested by Gary as a follow up to the last meeting’s reading by Elliot Eisner:…

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Meeting 22: June 2 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week’s reading will be “The Promise and Perils of Alternative Forms of Data Representation” by Eliot W. Eisner in Educational Researcher. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1176961?seq=2 It was suggested by Gary who characterizes Eisner as a “quantitative refugee. ” This should be interesting! Hope you can make…

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Meeting 21: May 5 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific



This week's reading will be Falsifying (Music) Education: Surrealism and Curriculum by Saville Kushner in Critical Education, which was suggested by Gary who comments, "A chance to consider the coercions and opportunities of the…

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Meeting 20: April 7 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific



This week's reading will be Henry Jenkins interview with Rich Halverson called Is New Media Incompatible with Schooling? It was Diigoed by Theron. There are two parts but they are short:

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Meeting 19: March 24, 8:15 a.m. Pacific



This weeks "reading" will be the 6 min TED talk by Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? at http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_point_for_web_exploration.html



Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on…

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Meeting 23: June 16 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week’s reading is Evaluation as a Cognitive Process by Michael Scriven. The article was suggested by Gary as a follow up to the last meeting’s reading by Elliot Eisner: "Note the contrast and complement to Eisner, particularly in the implicit occasion that prompts this short thought piece.”…See More
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Meeting 22: June 2 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week’s reading will be “The Promise and Perils of Alternative Forms of Data Representation” by Eliot W. Eisner in Educational Researcher. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1176961?seq=2 It was suggested by Gary who characterizes Eisner as a “quantitative refugee. ” This should be interesting! Hope you can make it.See More
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Meeting 21: May 5 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's reading will be Falsifying (Music) Education: Surrealism and Curriculum by Saville Kushner in Critical Education, which was suggested by Gary who comments, "A chance to consider the coercions and opportunities of the quantitative bias, among other topics for discussion embedded in this fairly short piece...."See More
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Meeting 20: April 7 at 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's reading will be Henry Jenkins interview with Rich Halverson called Is New Media Incompatible with Schooling? It was Diigoed by Theron. There are two parts but they are short: Part 1:…See More
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Meeting 19: March 24, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This weeks "reading" will be the 6 min TED talk by Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? at http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_point_for_web_exploration.htmlGary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases,…See More
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Meeting 18: March 10, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's reading will be the National Education Technology Plan, entitled, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology. We'll be reading the executive summary, which can be found here: http://www2ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/netp-executive-summary.pdfSee More
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Meeting 17: February 24, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

Scoping a Vision for Formative e-Assessment will be our reading for this week. It was suggested by Gary. For now we are just going to read the executive summary. However, there's more if you want to delve deeper (136 pages).See More
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Meeting 16: January 17, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

Close the Gap Between the Liberal Arts and Career Services by Katharine S. BrooksThis Chronicle article was diigoed by Ashley and has some interesting insights about leveraging "career services thinking" to get students thinking in much broader terms about how their learning prepares them for the future. It makes a good starting point for discussing how we approach ePortfolios, life-long-learning, and…See More
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Meeting 15: January 13, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

We're back in business. The reading for this meeting will be the abridged report of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment’s publication “More than you think, less than we need: learning outcomes assessment in American Higher Education” suggested by Ashley who notes that "It’s relevant to both our past and current work – lots of good quotes, things to link to possibly from our…See More
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Meeting 14: November 18, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This weeks reading was suggested by Nils and has two parts. Part I is How Social Networking Will Transform Learning by Tom Vander Ark who was the first Executive Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Nils has highlighted this quote from the article:"I'm betting on social learning platforms as a lever for improvement at scale in education. Instead of a classroom as…See More
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Meeting 13: November 4, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

This week's "reading" will be the TED talk by Daniel Pink on "The Surprising Science of Motivation." Pink, who wrote A Whole New Mind with its Manga version, Johnny Bunko, talks about motivation in business but it's not a great mental leap to see implications for learning.Hope you can make it!See More
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Nils Peterson commented on Jayme Jacobson's blog post 'Meeting 12: October 21, 8:15 a.m. Pacific'
I found this piece stimulating on several levels. The quote contrasting "I think, therefore I am" with "We participate, therefore we are." is a interesting paradigm shift. I wrote a response to the article, written after the…
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Meeting 12: October 21, 8:15 a.m. Pacific

The reading for this week will be Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. It was suggested by Nils.Hope to see you there...See More
Blog post by Jayme Jacobson Oct 5, 2009
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