Category: Pedagogy
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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 […]
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Day One of “Black Listed”
On January 30, 2018 we had our first “Black Listed” class. It was phenomenal! We started out by welcoming each other to the classroom while munching on a few snacks (compliments of Prof. Davidson). Professors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley, and Assistant Instructor Allison Guess, introduced themselves to the class. Following, the professors’ introduction, Allison Guess then […]
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Digital History in Florida
Florida Frontiers is the weekly multimedia program for the Florida Historical Society. During HASTAC 2017 Dr. Ben Brokemarkle, the executive director of the FHS and host of Florida Frontier did a series of interviews with attendees from Florida institutions at HASTAC. Those interviews provide a great overview of some of the digital activities happening in Florida. […]
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Communities Conference II: Civic Conversations Continue
Day 1 of The Communities Conference II: Civic Conversations Continue, a collaborative project between the Association to Preserve Eatonville Community (P.E.C.) and Rollins College took place on the campus of Rollins College on Thursday, January 25th in Winter Park, Florida. As I have written about before, this conference highlights an established relationship between Rollins College and Eatonville. […]
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Is This The Year You Join HASTAC?
I just noticed: we are now up to 15,944 network members! Let’s see if we can make it 16,000. HASTAC has a fabulous new leadership partner, Arizona State University. A fabulous new co-director, Jacque Wernimont. A fabulous new director of digital content and special projects, Liz Grumbach. A fabulous “veteran” (three years!) HASTAC […]
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William & Mary Branch Out Alternative Break with the Lemon Project, January 13-15, 2018
In January 2017, I went from not knowing much about William & Mary’s Lemon Project to falling in love in one weekend. The Lemon Project was my colleague’s assistantship last year, and, by a stroke of fate, she needed someone to help her run a three day long intensive workshop. By the end of the […]
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Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: 4 Lessons from TAing Online
In spring 2017, I served as a teaching assistant for “Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans,” Brown’s first ever online-only general education course in the humanities. In this gamified course, students follow a humanoid’s curiosity about what it means to be human through the use of literary analysis. In addition to weekly readings, students completed cafes (discussion […]
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What I Wish I Knew When I Started Doing Active Learning
For well over a decade, I’ve been studying the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory, and studies of pedagogy as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to do with techniques and methods for meaningful, engaged classrooms. I’m constantly learning, always trying new things. Here are things I wish […]
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Getting Started on a Course Using Radical Pedagogy: #MLA18 Pres Plenary Follow Up
So how do you get started with radical pedagogy–activist learning, engaged learning, student-centered learning are alternative terms? At my paper, on the #MLA18 Presidential Plenary that was convened by Pres Diana Taylor and included Judith Butler, Angela Davis (by stormed-out video), ACLU’s Anthony Romero, and Juan Lopez (by storm-required paper read by Diana Taylor), I […]
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21st Century Film School, first edition, 2017, 476, pp.
Coming, 2018. The CILECT network of film and media schools was founded in 1954. This collection of essays is the first publication of its kind that attempts to capture the contemporary passions, anxieties and celebrations of its members. Chapters from lecturers and industry specialists teaching in Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific region […]