Sharon Murphy September, 2026 "You're not listening!" is the lament of many today, and the digital multimedia world is sometimes implicated in such accusations. Indeed, although still and moving images are portrayed as click bait that lure users into digital media worlds, the role of audio has received less attention. Enter the National Literacy Trust (Arif, Clark, & Picton, July 2026) in England who recently surveyed 110,114 children aged 5 to 18 to find out about their

Sharon Murphy May 2021 A recent article by Nick Covington of the Human Restoration Project raises questions about how discourse about evidence can be harmful to the profession of teaching because it tends to create a what Gert Biesta calls "causal" and "technological" models of professional action. Instead, Covington says we must consider that teaching is value-laden. He cites the work of Yong Zhou on the shortcomings of direct instruction, a model of teaching that is a prim

Sharon Murphy May, 2015 Recently, in a series on play by The Walrus, Olympic athlete Marnie McBean commented that "expectation is the enemy of play." In setting out her premise, McBean reported that in one Olympic competion in which the Canadian team clearly held the advantage on many levels, a competitor team unexpectedly beat the Canadian team. As she watched them, McBean observed that the Canadian team, in its expectation of winning, had forgotten about the joy of her spor