by Jenae Cohn | Jun 24, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Pedagogy
The Computers & Writing 2019 program: hand-drawn and festive! Starting my conference recap post on this year’s Computers and Writing 2019 conference, I’m struck by my struggle to articulate a starting point. I think that’s in part because this...
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 | 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...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 11, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
My poor, almost four-year-old laptop is on the brink of collapse. She moans and churns and thinks really hard about loading webpages now. Awakening her from digital slumber takes a few pushes and prods at her buttons. It’s not her fault; this is exactly...