by Jenae Cohn | Dec 29, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings
A snapshot inside the Seattle Public Library, a place of many good reads and learning! 2019 has been a tremendous year of learning for me. From writing my first full book manuscript to presenting at some new conferences, from forming new collaborations and...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 20, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Web Culture Musings, Writing
What does it mean to “center ethical challenges” in the work of teaching writing to college students? This is part of the provocation at this year’s Computers and Writing Conference, where the theme is “Mission Critical: Centering Ethical Challenges in...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 24, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Web Culture Musings
A rock face from Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Markings upon rocks often served as warnings between indigenous peoples on New Mexican lands. I speak to warnings and otherwise in this post (Photo taken by me). Over the past 24 hours,...
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 | 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...
