Hey all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #354. Welcome to 2023! I took some time away for the holiday season and I’m excited to get started on some new initiatives. I posted the following since we last saw each other: Wicked Problems – Many important societal problems are neither simple nor easily solved; they are wicked…
Hey all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #352. Last week I attended the LRA 2022 Conference in Tempe, Arizona. As part of this, I presented in multiple sessions. I included some of materials for these below. I also serve as one of the e-editors for the organization’s website. Our first story (publication or blog post) went…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Happy weekend all. Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #340. I’ve been working on some things in the lab. 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 TOM CRUISE 2020 – RUN TOM RUN (Presidential Campaign Announcement)…
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…
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…