A link to this article in the Daily News came through on multiple list serves this morning: “New York City Teaching Fellows call for overhaul of 12-year program as deadline for new batch of teachers nears.” I think Lisa Cunningham, a former New York City Teaching Fellow who was interviewed for the article by Corinne [...]
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No Apples Here
by Kiersten Greene
Published on March 14, 2012 3:26 pm.This post draws from my first journal entry as a brand-new New York City Teaching Fellow about ten years ago. I’d spent plenty of time working with children as a teenager, and a year as a photography teacher at a school in Yonkers, but I was not prepared for what was to come. [Our summer [...]
Digital Humanities in the Classroom
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 19, 2011 11:47 am.As I get my feet wet with this public-blogging thing (intentionally public, anyway–this isn’t the first time I’ve blogged publicly, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while trying to capture the attention of a specific audience and string a common thread through my posts), there is a growing pile (digital and otherwise) of [...]
From Journal to Blog
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 14, 2011 5:23 pm.So much has been going on, it’s hard to figure out what to write about! I was back down at Occupy Wall Street this morning, and I am impressed that it’s still going strong. It makes me hopeful about what is possible. In the meantime, I got some helpful feedback about digital organization systems for [...]
Using Blogs as Data Collectors
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 6, 2011 9:25 am.When I started graduate school, web-based reference tools were only just being developed. At the time, I was using Endnote to keep track of my citations. That is, until I clumsily tripped over the cord attached to my iBook. This was before the cord was magnetic, and I watched in stop-action as all of my [...]
“Hope and enthusiasm are soaring here. But not test scores.”
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 6, 2011 4:35 pm.This past Sunday’s New York Times published the first of a series of articles about “the intersection of education, technology and business as schools embrace digital learning”(p. 16) with the title “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores.” I have to say, I appreciate the NYT’s effort at turning the spotlight to education every now and then, [...]
Where Physical Ends and Digital Begins
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 1, 2011 12:17 am.How often do you still download a document, or go to the site of a periodical you used to get in the mail every week, and approach it as a concrete piece of the physical world? How has the switch from print to digital affected how you engage with what you’re reading/learning? I grew up [...]
