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August 10, 2026

Read Before Write

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Image above is AI generated. Ideas below are human generated. Prefer to listen? In the summer of 1921, a fourteen-year-old farm boy named Philo Farnsworth…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
November 14, 2011

Educator Development (Not Teacher Preparation)

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This week I was invited to the National Convening on Clinical Practice in teacher preparation in Washington, DC. The event brought together university and P-12 partners from around…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
August 20, 2011

10 Steps to Making Your Classroom More Media & Technology Literate this Fall

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As all of you educators out there gear up for the new school year, I assure you that by following these 10 simple steps, it…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
July 23, 2011

Award-Winning Voices of Hope Productions

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While the state of New Jersey may be known for the Turnpike, the Sopranos, and the Jersey Shore, there is a small yet brilliant diamond…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
April 6, 2011

Building 21st-Century Teachers: An Intentional Pedagogy of Media Literacy Education

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High quality teacher education requires a complex body of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Media literacy education can (and should be thought of) as an intentional…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
February 20, 2011

Digital Media—New Learners of the 21st Century (PBS)

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This is a highly thoughtful 1-hour PBS feature of 5 innovative schooling projects in search for the purpose of education in the 21st century. It’s…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
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