Bio, Résumé & CV

I am most passionate about media and information literacy, especially as they pertain to adolescents' out-of-school media use. How might I, as a teacher-learner, tap into this in ways that add relevance and rigor to my course content and, at the same time, teach young people to engage more critically and responsibly with all forms of new and electronic media? And, even more important, how might we, as educators, work together to achieve the pedagogical shifts necessary to make this new kind of teaching and learning possible for all children? What is more unpredictable than teaching and learning with 21st-century digital technologies? How about raising kids? I am doing that, too, in a delightful old house in urban North Knoxville, along with my partner of 20+ years, my mother, and one dog, three cats, and some fish.