Deschryver, Michael
Associate Professor
Biography
Dr. Michael DeSchryver is an associate professor at Central Michigan University. He has over 20 years of experience helping teachers integrate emerging technologies in meaningful ways while working at K-12 schools and in various roles as a doctoral student and university professor. His teaching and research interests focus on new literacies and creative thinking, increasingly essential skills and strategies needed to teach, learn, and work successfully in a largely Web–mediated world.
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Publications & Presentations
DeSchryver, M. (2017). Using the web as a higher order thinking partner: Case study of an advanced learner creatively synthesizing knowledge on the web. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 55(2), 240-271.
Plevinski, J., Weible, J., & DeSchryver, M. (2017). Anchored annotation to support collaborative knowledge construction. Philadelphia, PA: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
DeSchryver, M. (2016). The Web as a creative thinking partner. eLearn, 2016(12), 1.
DeSchryver, M. (2015a). Higher-order thinking in an online world: Toward a theory of web-mediated knowledge synthesis. Teachers College Record, 117(3), 1-44.
DeSchryver, M. (2015b). Web-mediated knowledge synthesis for educators. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 58(5), 388–396.
DeSchryver. M., Yadav, A. (2015) Creative and computational thinking in the context of new literacies. Working with teachers to scaffold complex technology-mediated approaches to teaching and learning. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 23(3), 411-431.
Henriksen, D., DeSchryver, M., & Mishra, P. (2015). Transform and transcend: Synthesis as a trans-disciplinary approach to thinking and learning. TechTrends, 59(4), 5-9.
Spiro, R. J., DeSchryver, M., Hagerman, M. S., Morsink, P. M., & Thompson, P. (Eds.). (2015). Reading at a crossroads? Disjunctures and continuities in current conceptions and practices. New York, NY: Routledge.
DeSchryver, M., Leahey, S. Koehler, M., Wolf, L. (2013). Technology, learning, creativity, and design: The habits of mind necessary to generate new ways of teaching in a career of constant change. Tech Trends, 57(3), 40-46.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, 1992, Kalamazoo College;
Master of Arts in Computing and Education, 2002, Teachers College, Columbia University;
Doctor of Philosophy, Educational Psychology and Educational Technology, 2012, Michigan State University