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...
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 | 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 7, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization
It’s the start of August which, for schools on the semester system, means that instructors are starting to construct their fall syllabi, anticipating the start of yet another academic year. Here at Stanford, we’re on the quarter system, so we’ve got...
