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One of the things I admire about Virginia Woolf's writing is her precision in describing uncertainty. The most obvious example is her ...

Sometimes its the smallest of comments that can stop you in your tracks. Like yesterday - the doctoral students were talking about reading i...

I was flattered to be asked to present for the Global Conversations in Literacy series. The video is a screen capture of the talk, probabl...

Observational studies of children working on desktop computers sometimes drew our attention to how those particular material conditions es...

It's good to see the Second Edition of this book in print . and I think it provides a very useful overview of contemporary work in lit...

Over the last couple of weeks I've been involved in a lot of discussion about how teaching and learning get conceptualised in the on...

Last week I bought a goat, a spider and a stork. They cost 99p for the job lot. I know that because of the helpful receipt I got from iTun...

The act of writing has held my interest for a long time. It's partly because of its openness: the fact that possibility exists. There ...

You might guess that a publication addressing the state of the art in pedagogical uses of technology would include MOOCs, learning anal...

In retrospect I think Julia Gillen and I managed to capture something of the essence of microblogging in studying how Twitter was used i...

I've just been writing another paper about toddlers and touchscreens, and it returns to the same themes about gesture that I explored...

The idea that the virtual is constituted by the work of the imagination on tangible material phenomena only really started to take shape f...

When I started out in academic lresearch I learned about two important things: one was how to locate information and the other was how to ...

On my idiosyncratic pathway through informal meetings and programmed events at AERA 2012 I became interested in how becoming literate with t...

I'm back in the UK, after the annual pilgrimage to AERA, which this year was in beautiful Vancouver. As always it was great to meet up w...

Last Friday's UKLA research symposium gave us multiple perspectives on children's writing. Debbie Wells-Rowe opened with a critica...