by Dr. Sarah Payne, Instructional Designer, DLINQ By now many of us are familiar with the ways the coronavirus pandemic has affected teaching and learning, for better and for worse. One of the most egregious trends to emerge from pandemic pedagogy is t…
by Dr. Sarah Lohnes Watulak, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Media, and Dr. Amy Collier, Associate Provost for Digital Learning In Spring 2020, in response to the pandemic, K-12 schools and universities made a rapid and emergency transition to remote …
by Dr. Amy Collier, Associate Provost for Digital Learning, DLINQ This year, the Oxford English Dictionary named “infodemic” as one of its 2020 words of the year (breaking precedent, Oxford Languages chose more than 20 words of the year, noting that “2…
At the start of our 2019 Digital Detox, Dr. Sarah Lohnes Watulak and I wrote that “we must realize that the web is not a welcoming place for large numbers of marginalized people.” Today, as the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened our use of digital tools …
By Xiaofan Chen, Translation and Localization Management ’21, Natalie Fallert, International Education Management ’20, and Sailee Rangole, Translation and Localization Management ’21, DLINQ interns From July to November 2020, DLINQ interns Xiaofan Chen…
By Kaylen Rivers, DLINQ Intern, Computer Science and English Double Major One project we undertook as DLINQ interns was the Digital Cyborg, an open-ended exercise where we were tasked with analyzing and describing how our relationships with the digital…
by Sanjana Roy, DLINQ Intern My experience of creating an identity on the web started out with my first Yahoo email account at the age of 9. I was gifted a shiny, pink iPod shuffle on my 10th birthday, my first personal relationship in what was to beco…
by Jiaqi Li, DLINQ Intern, Computer Science & Geology Joint Major (This is a collaborative personal storytelling project between DLINQ Intern Cyborg project and an assignment for Writing on Contemporary Issues (fall 2020)) In computer science, an o…
by Alivia Kliesen, DLINQ Intern, Computer Science Major I was obsessed with virtual pets growing up. There were the obvious ones like Neopets and Webkinz, but my obsession did not end there. Whether I was raising virtual horses on howrse, breeding fant…
by Jiaqi Li, DLINQ Intern, Computer Science & Geology Joint Major The efforts powered by human curiosity and an innate need to understand the world, for lack of a better term, underlie all scientific explorations. That is precisely why science is, …
