| The onset of the pandemic-related shutdowns coincided with the first semester of the implementation of the Collaborating Across Boundaries to Engage Undergraduates in STEM Literacy project, an NSF-supported research effort designed to expand upon and evaluate a model for improving students’ science literacy, civic engagement and collaboration skills through interdisciplinary, community-engaged teaching collaborations. Our model relied heavily on regular meetings between collaborating classes from separate disciplines with each other and a community partner. The abrupt shift to online learning forced us to come up with new strategies for community-building, understanding group dynamics, and troubleshooting. |
Introducing the “Whose Facts Matter?” project
Journalism, increasingly, has become a computational profession, and that brings a new set of questions about core journalism values such as fairness, objectivity, and truth itself. This summer, I started work on a long-form writing project that engages these questions in a novel way – through a multi-media graphic narrative. It’s still a work in progress, but I invite you to take a look at “Whose Facts Matter? A Cautionary Tale” and offer your thoughts. For an overview of the ideas in the project, here are slides from the August, 2017 presentation I gave at a panel for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
This work builds upon the concerns I articulated in this 2014 talk: “Toward a more perfect Union: The case for culturally responsive computational journalism“
Should Mamas Let Their Babies Grow Up to Be Journalism Majors?
My latest post at BlogHer concerns a subject that I often deal with on my day job – your thoughts are welcome.