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 | May 22, 2019 | Higher Education, Professionalization
Sometimes, going big should be our goal, but on many other occasions, an obsession with scale and size can get in the way of cultivating community. As someone who has been working at the intersection of learning, design, and technology for a few years now, I’ve...
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 | 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 | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
A year of learning, I look back on 2018 and my favorite reads (many of which I accessed while visiting and spending time in the Salt Lake City Public Library, pictured here). End-of-year lists are one of my favorite things to read in December. From year-end books to...
