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,...
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 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 | 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 | 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...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 14, 2018 | Functional Literacy, information literacy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
Something I spend roughly 90% of my time doing for work is deciding when it’s worth it to share a new digital learning solution with the instructors I work with and when it’s not going to be worthwhile at all. There are some tools that instructors need to...
