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Taking Shortcuts

Hey all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #351. Last week I worked on the following: Taming the Digital Dragon – Last week I presented at the 2022 Annual Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In this session, I discuss the challenges I have with using the terms addiction and detox to describe…

Online Murmurations

Welcome back. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #350. Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net. Watch on YouTube Flight of the Starlings: Watch This Eerie but Beautiful Phenomenon This short film by Jan van IJken was shot in the Netherlands, and it…

Which Side Is Playing You?

Welcome back. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #349. Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net. Watch on YouTube Make INCREDIBLE Backgrounds With a TV! I love Caleb Pike and the DSLR Video Shooter YouTube channel. I’ve used (and shared) his previous video…

Life, Death, & Being

Hello all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #348. Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net. Watch on YouTube Carl Jung – The Power of Knowing Your Dark Side Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation…

Understanding and Overcoming

Hello all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #347. I helped post the following this week: Co-constructing meaning: Parents and children navigating digital literacies together – Together with Kristen Turner, Elizabeth Stevens, and Katie Paciga, we published this research in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL). The article documents a collaborative inquiry we conducted with…

Chaos Surfing

Welcome back all! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #346. I recently sat down with Nate Hurst and Rachel Meisner from ActiveClass to talk about digital citizenship and literacy. You can watch the complete discussion here. Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net.…

From Complacency To Conundrum

Welcome back all! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #345. We’re in the process of cleaning up as Hurricane Ian passed through our region. We’re all safe here took the day to clean up the year and set up for fall. This week’s issue was a lot of fun to pull together. Make sure you watch the…

Fear of Finding Out

Welcome back all! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #344. Many of you reached out last week after I posed the question about religion. Jim Burke suggested that we all take a look at The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald. It’s next on my list to read. I also received a request from…

Responsible Innovation Team

Welcome back all! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #343. Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net. Watch on YouTube Twitter Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko Complete Opening Statement In Nov. 2020, Peiter Zatko, the hacker known as “Mudge,” was hired as Twitter’s security…

Sisyphean Cycles

Welcome back all! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #342. It’s good to be back. I have a lot to share in the coming weeks. For now, lets’ get into it. o(^▽^)o Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net. Watch on YouTube Why…