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 | Mar 22, 2019 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
No matter what work we do in the university, maintaining our roots in whatever discipline(s) we came from can help us deepen our empathy and our ability to communicate well with our colleagues. Last week, I attended the Conference on College Composition and...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 14, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Personal
Our digital footprints may last a bit longer than these footprints in the sand, which may require us to be ever more mindful of what traces of ourselves we make visible. I Googled myself yesterday. This is not unusual; I “Google” myself with regularity, seeing what...
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...
