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Building LRNG Badges: Beyond Graphics
Teachers in the New York City Writing Project, Paul Allison, Kiran Chaudhuri, Gina Moss, and Grace Raffaele, talk through the Badge Builder on LRNG. A link to the assessment documents we refer to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B52TLTNub3z9T3V4SjhLdkIwa3c A link to a PSD version of the Picture Me Badge that can be used as a template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B52TLTNub3z9TzlvenhlZkNXNlU/view?usp=sharing ALSO: Here’s a close…
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The Future of Education Is Now
I am honored to announce the publication of my piece, “The Future of Education is Now,” just out, in Anthropology News . . . http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/01/13/the-future-of-education-is-now/ This brief article is for a series the American Association of Anthropologists asked me to write on “the future.” It is an appetizer for my book, The New Education:…
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HASTAC
HASTAC is a fairly new outlet, established in 2002. HASTAC stands for Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. This is a platform with which HASTAC hopes to transform the teaching and learning process by bringing together the humanities and sciences. HASTAC is a place for intellectuals from all backgrounds to come together and share…
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HASTAC’s Potential – Intellectual Platform?
For the last decade, the constructs of society have been based around social involvement, communication and accessibility to information. The well known leaders and game changers have been large companies. These companies have effectively used technology to impact the ways in which people integrate themselves into an evolving society. Well know players have been Facebook,…
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On Discovering HASTAC
HASTAC to me seems like a unique and genuine forum for collaboration amongst people with the same niche interest in the digital humanites branching topics. It was a surprise to me that to be a confirmed and registered member, that our profile had to be accepted into the organization. It makes me realize that open and…
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Digital Community
HASTAC is an online platform that fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration. It is a useful community forum within which to frame class discussions because posts are open to over 13,000 members – from humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, to technologists – and 400 institutes. Digital, humanistic endeavor hinges on the interaction between a cross-functional team, so expanding…
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Goals and Mission of the Futures Initiative
About the Futures Initiative The Futures Initiative advocates greater equity and innovation in higher education at every level of the university. Housed at the Graduate Center and reaching throughout the CUNY community, the Futures Initiative empowers the next generation of intellectual leaders with bold, public, and engaged teaching and learning. With an emphasis on student-centered…
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TTT#517 Argument is Everywhere – College-Ready Writers Program, LRNG Playlists, Youth Voices
Last week on Teachers Teaching Teachers (9pm ET/6pm PT on Wednesdays at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt) Christina Cantrill, Paul Allison, Joe Dillon, and National Writing Project Site Development Director Tom Fox @tomfoxchico reviewed teacher-consultant, Casey Olsen’s @Mr_Olsen_Says LRNG playlist https://www.lrng.org/national-writing-project/playlist/argument-is-every… On TTT, recently, we’ve been slowly, descriptively looking at the online, blended curriculum 20 teachers across the country…
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New Year, New Attempt at (Dissertation) Blogging
Happy first week of January, all! A lot has happened since I last wrote in May (oof). I took and passed my second (oral) exam, which was a big relief, and which means I’m officially a Ph.D candidate. I’d been both dreading it and excitedly awaiting it, and I’m happy to say it was much…
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Editor’s Preface
The experience of editing this volume has taught me so much. As a doctoral candidate, I write constantly, and as an assistant editor for the journals Harlot and Kairos, as well as a freelance editor, I edit constantly, too. Much of my writing ends up being collaborative on a variety of levels, from actually working…