Designing Learning for Tablet Classrooms: Innovations in Instruction

Donovan R. Walling is a writer and editorial consultant. He also is a senior consultant for the Center for Civic Education and formerly was director of publications for Phi Delta Kappa International. Prior to moving into education publishing, he was a curriculum administrator in public school districts in Wisconsin and Indiana, following a lengthy career as a classroom teacher in Wisconsin and for the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany.

Walling is the author or editor of sixteen books. Recent titles include Why Civic Education Matters; Writing for Understanding: Strategies to Increase Content Learning; Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners; Visual Knowing: Connecting Art and Ideas Across the Curriculum; Public Education, Democracy, and the Common Good; and Virtual Schooling: Issues in the Development of E-Learning Policy. He also has contributed articles to a number of professional journals, including a six-part series on student-produced media, titled “Tech-Savvy Teaching,” for the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) journal, TechTrends. He is the co-author (with Phillip Harris) of “Policies Governing Educational Technology Practice and Research” (Chapter 50) in Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, Fourth Edition. He also edits and designs the AECT quarterly e-newsletter, iTECH DIGEST.

Walling has written monographs; contributed articles to encyclopedias; provided pre- and post-publication book reviews; contributed chapters to various books, including scholarly history; published poems in journals and anthologies; and written several produced scripts for radio and stage as well as short story fiction. His Arts in View blog, which he began in 2009, is read literally around the world, as is his other blog, Advancing Learning and Democracy, which was launched in 2012. He was a founding associate editor of the Journal of Gayand Lesbian Issues in Education, now Journal of LGBT Youth, for which he continues to serve on the editorial board.

As a speaker, Walling has presented keynote and session presentations and workshops at international, national, regional and state education conferences in the United States, Canada and Germany.