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Digital Literacy Can Be a Bad Present: Why We Must Align Our Expectations of What “Digital Learning” is With Our Students

by Jenae Cohn | Feb 16, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings

Starting a digital literacy initiative can be a real gift… but it can also be an unwanted one if we don’t properly frame or scaffold it in ways that don’t make sense to our students. My heart froze as I saw the woman in the audience’s neutral...

Resisting the Boring Tech Demo: Three Ways to Teach Technical Concepts (and Three Questions about Improving these Techniques)

by Jenae Cohn | Jan 28, 2019 | Functional Literacy, Pedagogy

Teaching an effective technical training is a knotty problem (sorry, I couldn’t resist). You sit at the front of a lecture hall. A presenter is at the front of the room, a computer projected on to the wall. The presenter clicks through a dozen workflows,...

2019 New Year’s Resolutions: Striving to Be a Better Educator and Designer in the New Year

by Jenae Cohn | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized

This is me in front of a mural in Jeonju, South Korea. I have wings! A symbol for soaring to new heights in 2019! I love the concept of a New Year’s resolution: it’s reflection-in-action, an opportunity to look back on what the year before was like and to aspire...

2018 Year in Review: The Best Articles on Learning, Higher Education, and Technology

by Jenae Cohn | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized

A year of learning, I look back on 2018 and my favorite reads (many of which I accessed while visiting and spending time in the Salt Lake City Public Library, pictured here). End-of-year lists are one of my favorite things to read in December. From year-end books to...

How We Can Teach to the Template… and Still Teach Digital Literacy

by Jenae Cohn | Dec 14, 2018 | Uncategorized

At a place like Stanford, a lot of people (and this includes both people outside of and inside the university) believe that the students are naturally gifted tech whizzes. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Stanford is located in the heart of Silicon Valley and...
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