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 | Apr 3, 2019 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
I’m always buzzing on the first day of a new academic term. The opportunity to start afresh, to see the possibilities of a few weeks of ideas before me activates a mixture of different energies: anxiety, excitement, uncertainty of what to expect as everyone...
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 | Nov 28, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
It’s Week 9 (of 10) on the quarter system here at Stanford, which means that final projects are well underway for students and the instructors are anticipating the onslaught of final grading. There’s always a palpable nervous energy in the hallways during...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 15, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
For two hours on Tuesday morning, the e-mail server on-campus was down. I start my day as I suspect a lot of you do: check my e-mail inbox, respond to urgent messages, and use those very messages – their requests, their latest up-to-date information – to inform the...
