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jenaecohn.bsky.social
Learner. Writer. Educator. Executive Director, CTL @UCBerkeley. Views my own. Author of two books: "Skim, Dive, Surface" & "Design for Learning."
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Rhet & comp pals: I'm trying to find a free online resource w/ foundational advice abt giving students feedback, but was finding a lot of things are feeling very dated (I used to rely on WAC Clearinghouse). What are the resources you're liking most for advice on response to student writing?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Worried about getting students to do the reading this semester? I've curated some resources for the UVA Teaching Hub just in time for the start of Spring. Gratitude to @derekbruff.bsky.social for curating these excellent collections!

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

"We must recognize the harms that will result when writing is primarily treated as a tool to transcribe answers, including its implications for critical thinking, democratic decision-making, and linguistic variation and expression.” 🔥 refusinggenai.wordpress.com (1/5)

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

I recommend reading these 2 articles side-by-side on how higher ed instructors can protect their value in the face of threats to substitute valuable teaching labor with AI: 1. @biblioracle.bsky.social's take on getting faculty ready for "botification" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog... and (1/8)

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Delighted to chat with Joshua Kim about my chapter in "Recentering Learning!" I give a teaser on my chapter, reflect on the value of re-centering "joy" when you re-center learning at a research university, and tackle the big, bad "what about AI" question. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Delighted to receive my copy of "Recentering Learning!" My chapter, "Beyond Zoom University" makes the case that we need to think flexibly about the future of where and how learning happens with a nifty heuristic for designing digital pedagogy from a student-first perspective. #edusky

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

👋🏻 Hi, new followers! I'm delighted you've found me here! I'm still slowly re-building my engagement with my beloved pedagogy network (partially due to Twitter migration, primarily due to being a new parent to an infant and figuring out where blogging fits into my professional praxis)! (1/5)

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly, the student use cases for skimming and finding summaries of readings described here all make perfect sense to me! If you are assigning reading simply as a content delivery mechanism, then it shouldn't matter if students take "shortcuts." www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

Finally listened to this episode and it breaks down why the narrative about smartphones destroying teens' mental health is over-simplified and reductive. Haidt's book joins an incredibly long list of books that reproduce the same, boring thesis, which is important to note because... (1/x)

submitted 163 days ago • 1 comment

The biggest ick factor here is not actually the AI, but the assumption that "good" reading somehow requires expert interpretation to "get it." Sure, classics can be hard to read, but you don't need AI versions of scholars to explain them to you. What you need is a book group!

submitted 164 days ago • 5 comments

My feed is full of discussion around NaNoWriMo's AI sponsorship and their justification that rejecting AI is "classist and ableist." I'm interested in the classroom implications of this; to what extent are AI bans "ableist?" To what extent are required AI assignments similarly "ableist?"

submitted 178 days ago • 2 comments

Rebuilding teaching and learning community online is going to take time (and I'll admit I've been slow to contribute), but I'm delighted to see so many excellent folks make their way here to Bluesky!

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments