by Jenae Cohn | Sep 20, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
This morning, I saw sedans filled to the brim with pillows and blankets stalled on side streets. Mini-vans poured into campus parking lots. A few stray students toted their suitcases, lanyards already draped around their necks, with their nervous parents trotting...
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 | Jul 11, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Fold the paper in half. Fold the paper along the diagonal. Do it twice. Square the four corners. Turn the paper inside out. Tuck in the flaps. Repeat. I followed these steps, repetition upon repetition, until I reached a point where I finally felt satisfied with what...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 6, 2012 | Pedagogy, Personal
She had the “OK, I get it” gaze. One of my students – I’ll call her “Abby” – sat in the back of the classroom and she just had that look: the set jaw, the arms crossed, the eyes just a little glazed. She got it. She got this...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 1, 2012 | Pedagogy
I glanced at the clock: 7:50 A.M. Everyone’s here? Now? I teach UWP 1, freshman composition, in a computer lab this quarter and behind every monitor sat a student waiting to begin class. They were all ten minutes early at the already inhumane (at least by...
