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Remixing the Renaissance
Glitch-a-Lisa by Mrs. Gilly circa 2022 Today I realized that I need to rethink the way that I teach (again). I am currently teaching middle school art. Our school is a first year hybrid catholic school affiliated with a university and partnering with a big online company. The kids and I received some art supplies. I…
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Throw Out Your Lesson Plans
Sometimes, you just need to throw out your lesson plans. You need to meet the moment of where you and your students are. This morning is one such morning. In my art classes, we are learning about self-portraits. I am big on themes across each class. As such, for our photography class we are doing…
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Poetry Writing
The Department of English at Santa Clara University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Poetry Writing, to begin fall 2023 as part of a cluster hire in Race, Inequality, and Social Justice in the College of Arts and Sciences. We are particularly interested in poets whose work emphasizes racial and social justice, with additional…
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Meanderings of a Hybrid Teacher
Well Hello, School Year! We are finally here again. Welcome structure to our days. I reflect on where I am today. What day is it during this pandemic? Is it over yet? And who declares when a pandemic is really over? One of my good friends got Covid again at her Back to School…
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Join Us for An Event Celebrating the Release of the New College Classroom!
Join the Futures Initiative for our first hybrid event of the fall semester at the CUNY Graduate Center or via Zoom. Follow this link to the Eventbrite. About this event “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.” —Audre Lorde Join the Futures Initiative for our first event of the…
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Collaborative Book Review: Interview with Prof Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of Design Justice (2020)
R. Baker (interviewer & editor) Galen Bunting (interviewer) Nanditha Krishna (editor) On Jun 12, 2022, HASTAC scholars R. Baker and Galen Bunting met over Zoom with Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock, to discuss their book Design Justice (2020) . This interview has been edited for length and clarity (under the guidance of Prof. Costanza-Chock) by HASTAC scholars Nanditha Krishna and R Baker …
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AUGUST 5th: Last Chance to Remove Content from HASTAC.org
HASTAC’s transition to Humanities Commons is nearly complete! We’ll be doing a final migration of HASTAC.org content in mid-August. If you don’t want your content migrated, make sure you delete it by August 5. For more information, and details on how to delete content, check out our migration FAQs [https://www.hastac.org/hastac-migration-faqs].
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Mapping Asian American Narratives: Conception and Collaboration in D.H. Classes
Since the academic year is coming to an end, I want to take the time to reflect on the conception and collaboration that gets into the creation of classes in D.H. pedagogy. I think that in this case, it’s important to know how the sausage gets made to demystify the complexity surrounding D.H. classes and…
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Design Justice – “Design Sites: Hackerspaces, Fablabs, Hackathons, and DiscoTechs”
Chapter 4 Review In chapter four of the book Design Justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock provides a historical framework of co-design spaces such as hackerspaces originally designed to be inclusive and linked to bottom-up social movements. She includes modern variations of hackerspace and hackathons and tracks how far they have veered from their founding ideology, asking the…
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Review of Design Practices: “Nothing about Us without Us” | Design Justice
Sasha Costanza-Chock’s 2020 book Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, focuses on presenting a framework for implementing design strategies which put marginalized communities in leadership positions, challenge structural inequality, and build up mechanisms for accountability. More than just a call for action, Design Justice walks the reader not only through…