Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #387. Your go-to source for insightful content on education, technology, and the digital landscape. This week I worked on the following: 🕴️Navigating the “Self” in the Age of AI: A Journey into Generative Horizons – In this post, I unpack some of my thoughts about the self, individuality, and subjectivity…
Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #332. I presented three sessions this week at TLT Con 2022. Student Privacy and Pandemics: Understanding and Reducing Privacy and Security Risks – I discuss the different types of student data, how that data is used, and the key policies, practices, and procedures that schools and districts should implement to…
This week I published the following: There Are Always Two Paths – There are always two paths. The darker heavier path, or the lighter easier path. You can always choose to make something already hard worse by your response, or you can choose to make it easier by a different response. Thank You. I’m Sorry.…
Collective Sensemaking Digitally Lit #252 – 6/27/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #251 of Digitally Literate. Each week in this newsletter, I synthesize the news of the week in education, technology, & literacy. If you haven’t already, please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Feel free to reach…
Do The Work Digitally Lit #250 – 6/6/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #250 of Digitally Literate. Each week in this newsletter, I synthesize the news of the week in education, technology, & literacy. If you haven’t already, please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Feel free to…
An interview with Dr. Howard Stevenson from the series on racial literacy & tech from Data & Society Faculty Fellow Jessie Daniels. This is the first interview in a series on racial literacy and tech, curated by Data & Society 2018–19 Faculty Fellow Jessie Daniels. It expands on ideas from her new paper Advancing Racial Literacy…
Why do white men clam up when conversations steer toward race? Why are white women prone to crying when discussing this topic (and how can those tears …
An interview with Robin DiAngelo in EdSurge. Why do white men clam up when conversations steer toward race? Why are white women prone to crying when discussing this topic (and how can those tears silence women of color)? Why do some leaders feel uncomfortable and reluctant to get feedback on how their actions and behaviors are perceived?…
Robin DiAngelo argues that our largely segregated society is set up to insulate whites from racial discomfort, so that they fall to pieces at the first application of stress.
Book review of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo in The New Yorker. View annotations in context. In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at discussing racism. Like waves on sand, their reactions form…
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…
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