Category: Connected Learning

  • How Blogging Is (or Should Be) Essential to Active Learning and Radical Pedagogy

    How Blogging Is (or Should Be) Essential to Active Learning and Radical Pedagogy

    WHY BLOG?   If there is no communicative purpose and no learning theory and research supporting blogging, than it can become as meaningless as any other classroom exercise assigned for the sake of an exercise.  In this case, for our “Black Listed” course, we have thought through the blog and comments on the blog as part […]

  • Blacklisted Weeks 1 & 2

    Blacklisted Weeks 1 & 2

    For the course, “Blacklisted: African American Writers and the Cold War Politics of Integration, Surveillance, Censorship and Publication,” led by Professors Shelly Eversley, Cathy Davidson and Allison Guess, students self-selected smaller groups centered around particular themes to present over the course of two weeks.  Our group (Kashema Hutchinson, Amrit Justin Trewn and Tyler Morse) was […]

  • Raisin in the Sun at Blackmore Theater (This Day in HIstory)

    SchomburgCenter‏Verified account @SchomburgCenter 1h1 hour ago:  Today Day in Black History Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun opens at Barrymore Theater, New York—the first play by a black woman to premiere on Broadway (1959) #todayinblackhistory   From Wikipedia: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.[2] Hansberry was […]

  • Partnerships in Advancing Digital Archival Education

    Posted in https://saaers.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/partnerships-in-advancing-digital-archival-education/  on March 6, 2018 by Sohan Shah, Michael J. Kurtz, and Richard Marciano This is the fourth post in the BloggERS series on Collaborating Beyond the Archival Profession.   The mission of the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the University of Maryland’s iSchool is to integrate archival education with research and technology. The Center […]

  • What We Learned from a Decade of Digital Media and Learning

    What We Learned from a Decade of Digital Media and Learning

    For a decade, HASTAC teams at Duke University and at the University of California Humanities Research Institute administered the Digital Media and Learning Competitions supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.    MacArthur Foundation is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary by recounting 40 stories of the work it has done.  I was honored […]

  • Easy Ways to Enliven Any Classroom, Any Size

    Easy Ways to Enliven Any Classroom, Any Size

    It’s 8 am. Half the class is asleep, the other is staring into a cell phone. How do you turn such a dispiriting lecture class into a site of engaged, active learning?  Well, you engage the students, for starters!  Here are 33 ways that various faculty in the humanities and social sciences have found to […]

  • Interview with Dean Rehberger on the “Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade” Project

    Michigan State University is embarking on a grand new adventure. Dean Rehberger, the director of Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in the College of Social Sciences at Michigan State University is also the principal investigator on Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade, a new initiative to facilitate research on […]

  • An Assessment of the Digital Media and Learning Competition

    Increasing availability and accessibility of digital media have changed the ways in which young people learn, socialize, play, and engage in civic life. Seeking to understand how learning environments and institutions should transform to respond to these changes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched the Digital Media and Learning (DML) Initiative in […]

  • Black Listed Syllabus

      “Black Listed: African American Writers and the Cold War Politics of Integration, Surveillance, Censorship, and Publication”  Prof. Cathy N. Davidson (Graduate Center, Futures Initiative); Prof. Shelly Eversley (Baruch, Equality Archives); Assisting Instructor Allison Guess (Doctoral Fellow, Futures Initiative, and PhD Candidate, Geography) English 80300, IDS 81630   S 2018 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30pm  (Begins Tues, Jan 30, […]

  • Recap: A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student Career Planning

    Recap: A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student Career Planning

    At this year’s MLA conference, I attended a Connected Academics Initiative event on “Doctoral Student Career Planning.” It turned out the event was quite different from what I had imagined it to be. From the description, I thought that it would be more geared towards doctoral students, but the target group was definitely faculty and advisors […]