Educational Technologies, Student Learning, & the University as a Public Good
This essay was presented on July 21, 2016 as part of my Qualifying Exams for my PhD in the Environmental…
Day -70
Four years is a long time. I am writing this because I don’t want to forget how shitty/devastated/scared/uncertain/confused/disempowered/motivated I felt this…
Program Alumnus Roberta Feldman Receives Leadership Award
The Environmental Psychology program would like to congratulate alumnus Roberta M. Feldman, Ph.D. on her reception of Architectural Record’s Women…
Plugins 101: Setting Up Jetpack
Jetpack is a plugin that activates various WordPress.com functionalities on a wordpress.org OpenCUNY site. We recommend Jetpack because it adds features and functionalities such…
Learning Spaces, learning environments and the ‘dis’placement of learning
Herbert Thomas (2009) British Journal of Educational Technology The physical learning environment is an integral part of the learning process. Traditional learning spaces imply a certain type of teaching and management strategies and can constrain the various possible types of learning. Traditional lecture halls do not contain affordances to promote active learning: “engaged learning is […]
Welcome to Cyberia
Arturo Escobar, (1994) Current Anthropology In “Welcome to Cyberia, Arturo Escobar provides details how anthropological research methods can be used to explore and better understand cyberculture. The fact that “technologies are bringing about a fundamental transformation in the structure and meaning of modern society” (211) warrants an anthropological approach to research. According to Escobar, to […]
The Writing Thing (AKA: Why Writing is Important)
To spark some ideas for tackling my second doc exams and the upcoming dissertation, I visited SimplicityArchive, the site I created for my masters thesis (the last grad school milestone I survived). Reading through the blog provided me with a lot insight into my thoughts at that time and made me realize how valuable it was to have that […]
Spring 2016 Brown Bag Schedule
Join us for these exciting events this Spring!
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Spring 2016 Brown Bag Schedule
Join us for these exciting events this Spring!
Randy Bass: Engines of Inquiry
Originally written for ITP Core 1 The imaginary/conceptual “game of perfect information” holds that, with the right setup computers can…
#2: Word Clouds
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Wow, I really wish I had a image for this but its all text”?…
