Associate Professor
Department of Teacher Education and Professional Development
EHS Building 460
989-774-1456
desch2m@cmich.edu
Dr. Michael DeSchryver is an associate professor at Central Michigan
University and director of the Doctorate in Educational Technology program. 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, increasing essential skills and strategies needed to
teach, learn, and work successfully in a largely Web–mediated world. Recent published work in the
Teachers College Record provides a foundational theory for teaching and research related to new literacy
skills that support creative thinking, while related work in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, the
Journal of Educational Computing Research, and eLearn focuses on how educators can begin to scaffold
Web-mediated knowledge synthesis. Selected scholarly activities.
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