by Jenae Cohn | Dec 6, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
It’s the last week of classes here at Stanford, so students are lingering in the hallways outside their instructors’ offices. Almost every student I see here has a smartphone out, perusing, scanning, skimming, and waiting until they can wrap up their...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 28, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
It’s Week 9 (of 10) on the quarter system here at Stanford, which means that final projects are well underway for students and the instructors are anticipating the onslaught of final grading. There’s always a palpable nervous energy in the hallways during...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 15, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
For two hours on Tuesday morning, the e-mail server on-campus was down. I start my day as I suspect a lot of you do: check my e-mail inbox, respond to urgent messages, and use those very messages – their requests, their latest up-to-date information – to inform the...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 2, 2018 | Functional Literacy, Professionalization
As an Academic Technology Specialist, I am often asked things I know nothing about. My job title, admittedly, is confusing. Do I work in IT? Do I work in audio-visual engineering? I do neither of these things: I’m an educator who builds curriculum, develops...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
I awakened yesterday morning to the news about the shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. I felt mostly numb. Anti-semitism is not new. It is part of living life as a Jewish-American. I still remember that Jewish synagogues in my hometown of Sacramento...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 19, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Writing
It’s been quiet around here! I’m back from taking a vacation for the first time in about a year, and it was a trip unlike any I had taken before. I traveled to South Korea, a place where I didn’t know the language and had only read about the...
by Jenae Cohn | Sep 20, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
This morning, I saw sedans filled to the brim with pillows and blankets stalled on side streets. Mini-vans poured into campus parking lots. A few stray students toted their suitcases, lanyards already draped around their necks, with their nervous parents trotting...
by Jenae Cohn | Sep 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Imagine you are a student again. You have been assigned a classroom to attend your first class session of a new semester or quarter. You walk into the classroom for the first time and when you open the door, you are a bit surprised by what you see: an empty room with...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 27, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization
For many years, I supported students in writing and editing their college application essays. I worked primarily with students transitioning immediately from high school to college, and when they would write about developing their “personal brand,” I often...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 23, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
I remember the first time that someone told me that my work could not “scale” and, as a result, was not going to advance any entrepreneurial interests I harbored. I had just graduated from college, and was working a lot of odd jobs: working for a tutor...
