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Resisting the Boring Tech Demo: Three Ways to Teach Technical Concepts (and Three Questions about Improving these Techniques)

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,...

2019 New Year’s Resolutions: Striving to Be a Better Educator and Designer in the New Year

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...

Becoming Curatorial: How Designing a Class is Like Curating a Museum Exhibit

by Jenae Cohn | Jul 27, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings

Museums are some of the most consistently fascinating and generative spaces for me, for they remind me that we can tell endless stories about the artifacts that define human life. From paintings and sculptures, to everyday objects like kitchen supplies and clothing,...
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