by Jenae Cohn | Aug 23, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
I remember the first time that someone told me that my work could not “scale” and, as a result, was not going to advance any entrepreneurial interests I harbored. I had just graduated from college, and was working a lot of odd jobs: working for a tutor...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 23, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
What does it look like to pay attention to someone? As an instructor, there are few obvious signs that a student is paying attention: they sit up straight in their chairs, they make eye contact with me, and they’ll often nod their heads as they listen in...
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 | 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...
