I grew up in a middle-class American household, and I studied classical music. I
took private lessons from seventh grade on. I owned my own instrument from
eighth grade on. I upgraded to
We sacrifice control in the name of convenience. As we become like cyborgs, we
should expect more control over our technology. Tech has long aimed to provide
additional conveniences for modern living, with
“In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get
up, time to get up, seven o’clock!”
~ Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
The more our tools
This is an experimental publication combining video and text. It was created in
response to a call for papers [https://hybridpedagogy.org/cfp-scholarly-digital/] seeking a
“meta-level consideration of what ‘counts’ as scholarship, ideally
I appreciate the agility available to the digital academic, but there is
something a bit fun-house about all of this to me. Every day as part of my work
as a college English
When I first proposed the research title “Editing Chicanas,” one of my mentors,
Alice Gambrell, commented that it was a good title, partly because it prompted
such anxiety. I was surprised, as anxiety
Introduction
Today scholars walk a difficult line when choosing how much time to spend
gaining traction within their institutions or growing a reputation online. In
many cases these approaches can build on one
The other day, a first-grader whom I tutor in reading explained to me his
understanding of a dictionary, which he was just learning to use: “It’s what
people used to use to
Andrew Shaw’s “The College Experience: A Modern-Day Paddy West
[http://www.hastac.org/blogs/andrew-shaw/2014/02/16/college-experience-modern-day-paddy-west]
?” demonstrates the value of asking undergraduates to prepare and publish
assignments. As an
In Submission. 22nd May 2015
In January 2014 I signed up to study on Dave Cormier’s Rhizomatic Learning
Course
[https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/]
, known often by those in a
Twitter is an incredibly dynamic digital tool that can create spaces of
flattened hierarchies. These spaces can fuel inclusive pedagogy. But before
teaching with Twitter, instructors have to think about how to use
“Screens so hi-def you might as well be there, cost effective videophonic
conferencing, internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles (…)
Half of all metro Bostonians now work from home via some digital link.
I’m a feminist teacher of writing and literature of over 25 years and,
amazingly, I still love it. I love the transformative nature of critical
feminist pedagogy, the dialogic classes where meaning
