Angela Brown – Makers, Monsters and Humble Heroes: A Year of Writing with AACE Review By Angela Brown for AACE Review It is hard to imagine that I have now been writing with AACE Review for the last year! I can honestly say it has been a lot of fun. Writing blog posts about subjects I love, alongside other … Read more
Review: An urgency of teachers: the work of critical digital pedagogy by Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel. By Angela Brown for AACE Review An Urgency of Teachers: the work of critical digital pedagogy is a collection of intelligent counsel and an emotional summons. Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) and Jesse Stommel (@jessifer) can be arresting poets. When I first stumbled upon Jesse … Read more
A Review of ‘Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online’ By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review In Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online, Marwick and Lewis (2017) of the Data & Society Research Institute described the agents of media manipulation, their modus operandi, motivators, and how they’ve taken advantage of the vulnerability of online media. … Read more
Book Review: Calling all Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor By Angela Brown for AACE Review Are you a visual thinker? If you are, how do you know this? What is the experience of thinking visually? Temple Grandin’s book, Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor, opens with a … Read more
Book Review: Gabi’s If/Then Garden by Caroline Karanja By Angela Brown for AACE Review It’s refreshing to see a book about coding that embeds computational thinking into the natural world of gardens and growing food. Particularly for younger children, understanding coding as a powerful thinking tool for problem-solving, paired with an emerging … Read more
Book Review: Girls who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani By Angela Brown for AACE Review Reshma Saujani’s book Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World conjures up conflicting emotions for me, before I even turn a page. Part of me wishes this book didn’t need to exist and that there … Read more
Book Review: Coding as a Playground: Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom By Angela Brown for AACE Review Through my explorations of Makerspaces, I keep returning to wonder about why we create separate, distinct spaces aside from others “for making”. In a similar way, we also create designated play spaces, like playgrounds “to play”. These boundaries … Read more
Book Review: Teaching Crowds By Justin Whiting for AACE Review Crowds. They are everywhere, and generally crowds cause challenges for those that have to manage them. Yet, crowds can be exciting, energetic, and full of creativity. Trying to manage the complexities of a crowd, while harnessing the positive … Read more