by Jenae Cohn | Mar 24, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy
Have I mentioned here before that I work an additional job as a freelance (ghost) editor for a college and career counselor? Well, I’m mentioning it now and for one reason in particular: the ubiquitous “newspaper rhetoric” assignment. You know the...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 5, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings
I know I’m already three posts into discussion of DML and, for those of you looking for other things on this blog (like, erm, Codeacademy, which I will duly resume at the end of this month), this may not be that exciting. But! The DML experience was really...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 3, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings
Over the past two days at DML, I’ve come to realize just how perfect it is that we’re in San Francisco. A city committed to openness and liberal thinking with progressiveness at its ideological core, even its city streets reflect a kind of hybrid...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 21, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Web Culture Musings
Most digital natives have likely had an experience like I had this weekend: helping mom with the computer. I’m not sure why she entrusts me with this task. I probably don’t know that much more than she does (though, of course, I have to adopt the bravado...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 3, 2012 | Digital Literacy, UWP 270
What do you get when you put a few hundred K-16 instructors, school administrators, UC Davis faculty, and graduate students all in one room? This isn’t much of a riddle. The answer is (hopefully) obvious. What emerged from conversations between all of these...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 24, 2012 | Digital Literacy, UWP 270
… in all likelihood, a number of different things, all of which might have something to do with “language acquisition,” “the alphabet,” “writing,” or – simply – “words.” I know that prior to my study of digital scholarship, I thought of literacy as...
