Tag: education

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…

Sunset of the Social Network

Welcome back! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #341. I’m stepping away from this newsletter and social media for the month of August. As the summer wraps up, and I prepare for the new academic year, I find it helpful to take a digital detox of sorts. I started this process several years ago when I watched…

Facebook-addled Boomer Behavior

Holla back y’all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #339. This week I helped publish the following: Toward Transdisciplinarity: Constructing Meaning Where Disciplines Intersect, Combine, and Shift – Together with some great colleagues and students, we explored the move from literacy to disciplinary literacy…and why transdisciplinarity might be the answer to addressing wicked challenges. Please subscribe if…

Interrogating Our Stuckness

Welcome back, friends and family. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #338. This week I helped publish the following: 3D Printed Iron Gates: Celebrating an African American Artist Through a Transdisciplinary Lesson – Together with several of my research colleagues and students, we explore 3D printing, transdisciplinary, and education. Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter…

Social Natives ≠ Digital Natives

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #337. I didn’t send out last week’s issue as I was away on a retreat in the middle of nowhere. No TVs, limited Internet, and campers. The good news is that I was able to listen to Project Hail Mary, the new novel by Andy Weir on the way out,…

Algorithmically Plottable Emptiness

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #336. I spent a lot of time working on several projects. More to come soon. 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 A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace – John Perry Barlow A…

The Act of Looking

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #335. I worked on a couple of projects behind the scenes this week. More to come soon. Last week I was honored to join Bryan Alexander on the Future Trends Forum for a wide-ranging discussion about edtech, social good, badges, and Google+. Watch the discussion here. Please subscribe if you…

Teaching The Kids To Run

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #333. I worked on some things behind the scenes this week. Towards Transdisciplinarity: Constructing Meaning Where Disciplines Intersect, Combine, and Shift – This research was accepted for publication. Some relatively small edits and revisions were made this week and we sent them back to the editors. Please subscribe if you…

Neural Replay

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #329. I spent the beginning of the week in San Diego at AERA and then was back at home to catch up on emails, projects, and life. I posted the following this week: Talk, Text, Content & Context: Using Poetry & Multimodal Exploration to Develop a Community of Inquiry -…

A Web Renaissance

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #328. Another busy week here. My semester wrapped up and I hosted a poetry slam for students in my classes. I also posted the following: I worked on the following this week: Towards a New Normal: Motivation & engagement in digital spaces – I presented a virtual workshop at AERA…