Tag: critical literacy

Uncomfortable and Inconvenient Truths

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #375. I worked on the following this week: Noah Hawley’s Dystopian Thriller Anthem – A Review – Noah Hawley‘s latest novel Anthem offers a disturbing yet captivating vision of a near-future America plagued by political strife, climate disaster, and teenage suicide. The Power of Empathy in an Age of Division…

All That Becomes You

Welcome back all. Here is Digitally Literate, issue #318. I posted the following this week: Mind The Gap – The “gap” is the space between where we’re actually standing and where we want to be. It’s a call to action to live according to our values and culture, and not just talking about it.Assessing My…

Critical Feminist Pedagogies Reading List

A list of readings focused on critical feminist pedagogies. I’d also recommend this resource list from the Gender and Education Association, as well as this guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching Readings Crawley, S. L., Lewis, J. E., & Mayberry, M. (2008). Introduction—feminist pedagogies in action: Teaching beyond disciplines. Feminist Teacher, 19(1), 1-12. Crawley, S. L.,…

This is America: Donald Glover’s Video is a Gripping Read

This is America: Donald Glover’s Video is a Gripping Read (awesomelyluvvie.com)

The clear overall statement here is that we are too busy being distracted by what is shiny, and dancing and right in front of our faces to pay any real attention to what is happening that is destroying us.

A brilliant decomposition of the Donald Glover/Childish Gambino This is America video by Awesomely Luvvie. Video and important pull quotes available below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY In times of great crisis, we create great art. Donald Glover’s video for his latest single This is America is great art. It’s not because it’s trying to be overly subtle to where only art connoisseurs…