CUNY Academic Commons

I think that the teacher candidate visual resource is a useful way to present challenges of teacher candidates’ experiences with technology. Even though the cartoon format is not my preferred way of absorbing information, I do understand that many people like it. And, the variety of formats is always good.
I think that there is this assumption t…[Read more]

For the design process, I tinkered with Loopy. I wanted to try it out because it is a new tool for me. I was glad that it was an open source tool although I found their privacy policy… surprising. It took me a bit to figure out how to add nodes and delete circles.

I did like this simple visualization tool. I think it can be useful explaining…[Read more]

Agnieszka Rakowicz, Teaching Linguistics in Education and Language Acquisition Department at LaGuardia Community College

Yes, I looked at them several weeks ago. I was surprised how much overlap there was. I liked the idea of inquiry-based learning approaches and inclusive, student-centered pedagogy, which computational and digital tools may help…[Read more]

I found the idea of citational justice illuminating. Who and how we cite has implications on how truth is defined in various disciplines and can further marginalize those already less included in dominant discourse. In linguistics, for example, we often talk about speech communities. When learning about a speech community, looking at primary…[Read more]