by Jenae Cohn | Mar 22, 2019 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
No matter what work we do in the university, maintaining our roots in whatever discipline(s) we came from can help us deepen our empathy and our ability to communicate well with our colleagues. Last week, I attended the Conference on College Composition and...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 14, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Personal
Our digital footprints may last a bit longer than these footprints in the sand, which may require us to be ever more mindful of what traces of ourselves we make visible. I Googled myself yesterday. This is not unusual; I “Google” myself with regularity, seeing what...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 28, 2019 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
My conference badge and swag from ELI 2019. I got pretty into all of the stickers, identifying my pronouns, my role at my institution, and the fact that I was a first-time attendee! Last week, I attended the EDUCUASE Learning Initiative (ELI) conference for the first...
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...
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...
